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TRUTH 



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COLONEL JOHN A. JOYCE 

Author CKecItered Life; Jewels of Memory; Peculiar Poems; Zigzag; Complete Poems; 

Brickbats and Bouquets; Oliver Goldsmith; Edgar Allan Poe; Beautiful 

Washington; Personal Recollections of Shakspere and Truth. 



Truth is Truth forever. — Joyce. 



SECOND EDITION. 



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Copyright, 1909, 

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JOHN A. JOYCE, 
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DEDICATION. 

1 dedicate this book to the Reader who has 

money enough to buy it and mind enough to 

understand it ! 

J. A. J. 



PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION— TRUTH. 

I present this fragrant bouquet of wisdom to the present 

and coming ages, culled out of the celestial garden of my 

mind, and while the idea has been expressed a billion times 

before, it has never been equaled or surpassed in brevity, 

style, number and independence by any other author in 

ancient or modern years ; and when the man made bibles 

of the globe fail to furnish text for sacerdotal sermons, viy 

Truth will supply the deficiency! 

J. A. J. 



SECTION ONE 



God is good. 
Love is eternal. 
Fear only fear. 
Work is wealth. 
God is mystery. 
Work is wisdom. 
Gold is governor. 
Truth is what is! 
Saving is having. 
Despair is victory. 
Cash is conqueror. 
Tyranny is torture. 
God reigns eternal. 
Labor is conqueror. 
Great care is dumb. 
Genius herds alone. 
Sorrow is universal. 
Passion is perdition. 
Death tells no secrets. 
Truth is immortality. 



TRUTH 



God is life and death. 
Truth laughs at a lie. 
Goodness is greatness. 
Truth is truth forever. 
Inconstancy is failure. 
Wrong can find no rest. 
Civility begets civility. 
Pluck commands luck. 
Character is happiness. 
Fire burns but to build. 
Cheerfulness is wisdom. 
Patience is preservation. 
Self love is self sacrifice. 
Cheap things are cheats. 
Tyrants have no friends. 
The Devil is destruction. 
Money manages morality. 
Passion is poison to truth. 
Care is mental crucifixion. 
It is lonesome to be great. 
Wet goods ruin dry goods. 
A bullet bluffs the blufifer. 
Nature is never in a hurry. 
Will-power is world power. 
The unborn are the lucky. 



TRUTH 

Anger is a suicidal passion. 
Magnanimity is victorious. 
Virtue is constant victory. 
Constant fear is half death. 
Adversity shows no favor. 
The great are pasquinaded. 
Overdoing is often undoing. 
Cash is a convenient power. 
Many a couple is not paired. 
Genius is a disease for work. 
Poverty invites persecution. 
Health generates happiness. 
Doing nothing is hard work. 
Guilt is a silent executioner. 
A manly man is never cruel. 
Bribery and theft are twins. 
Envy is a cancerous disease. 
True wisdom has no cunning. 
Hypocrisy, thy name is man ! 
Grief is your worst governor. 
Life is the greatest plagiarist. 
Cleanliness is the gift of God. 
The belly is the glutton's eye 
Doing, triumphs over talking. 
Death is better than slavery 



10 TRUTH 

Conciliation catches two birds. 
Self control is a safe situation. 
Bullets are the best diplomats. 
Good roads prevent profanity. 
Dollars are powerful debaters. 
Exclusiveness is deterioration. 
Daily duty is daily happiness. 
Golden graft is glittering ruin. 
Revenging injury is expensive. 
Death is the tomb of pleasure. 
A bad cause is better banished. 
Necessity is the spur to genius. 
Hate and love are born blind. 
Pay your debts and be happy. 
Do something now or get out. 
Love and force rule the world. 
Successful vice imitates virtue. 
Mind and money manage men. 
No person is always fortunate. 
Envy is the cancer of the soul. 
The loser receives no applause. 
Better be abused than ignored. 
Malice macerates contentment. 
The luck of a coward is failure. 
Suspicion is death to happiness. 



TRUTH 11 



Debt is danger and destruction. 
Envy is as universal as the air. 
Visions are the ghosts of desire. 
Money saving is peace of mind. 
Money is never above the man. 
Fault-finding generates enemies. 
Purchased fidelity is easily sold. 
Hypocrisy, thy name is politics ! 
Wisdom and wine soon separate. 
Haste hobbles its best intention. 
Secret sin is the deadliest friend. 
The devil is the father of doubt. 
Dependence descends to despair. 
Nerve and gold win everywhere. 
Lip wisdom has little experience. 
A good name shines in the dark. 
Foolish spending is rapid ending. 
Hate is the hyena of happiness. 
Idleness is the grave of endeavor. 
Love with reciprocity is robbery. 
Punishment surely follows crime. 
The Leader must lead or be led. 
Love can give no reason for love. 
No mill no meal, no woe no weal. 
The cheapest clothes are dearest. 



12 TRUTH 

Consolidation is the fiat of Fate. 

Solitude is the nursery of genius. 

Gold is the governor of mankind. 

By failure we may learn success. 

Poverty parts the dearest friends. 

The good have constant pleasure. 

Our enemy will teach us wisdom. 

Death is the dawn of eternal life. 

Suffering is the father of wisdom. 

Where are the dead of yesterday? 

A dollar or two is a friend so true. 

Passion spending is wanton waste. 

No one is continuously successful. 

Dependence is a desperate misery. 

It is better to help than to hinder. 

Death to tyranny is life to liberty. 

Dyspeptic envy is a bad neighbor. 

Conscience is the umpire of action. 

Pretension is the poison of power. 

Weeds, like idle words, are useless. 

Cattle people never rule anywhere. 

The dunce is the enemy of genius. 

Equity is the soul of even justice. 

Man is a moving mass of microbes. 

God and conscience onlv know us. 



TRUTH 13 



"S\ big business man never blusters. 
Decent dignity hinges on humility. 
GambHng is the whirligig of a fool. 
~-^leep is the vestibule of the grave. 
Conscience never takes a vacation. 
Dictators are despicable defrauders. 
Great knowledge is lonely isolation. 
Proverbs are the pearls of wisdom. 
We grow weary of continued bliss. 
A good deed is the fruit of the soul. 
Many trusts have become mistrusts. 
Carelessness and haste trip success. 
Immediate credit is copious capital. 
War is the paralysis of commerce. 
Envy and censure follow the great. 
Equity is the benevolence of justice. 
Life is a slip, a flip, a rip and a tip. 
Poverty is the propeller of genius. 
Those we have saved may slay us. 
He who grants no mercy gets none. 
Sleep is the twin brother of death. 
Gold climbs over the highest fence. 
Economy is the master of revenue. 
The disease of avarice is incurable. 
Fear is suspicious, mean and cruel. 



14 TRUTH 

Time and truth are immortal twins. 
A solemn promise is a debt unpaid. 
Fear is the foxy enemy of fortitude. 
Unbidden guests are painful pests. 
Midnight larks are daylight sharks. 
Glory is the grave of wretchedness. 
Purpose points the plough of labor. 
That chattering chap has little wit. 
Capital is the cause of lasting labor. 
Grief is often the forerunner of joy. 
We are, we are not, and then what? 
Those who live in fear die in despair. 
The right Rebel is the liberty ruler. 
A tuneful tongue is a daily triumph. 
He makes us, takes us and saves us. 
Poverty becomes the slave of riches. 
Disease is the dividend of pleasure. 
Truth is the only tyrannical success. 
Life and Death are eternal partners. 
Courage is sharper than any sword. 
Good credit is often as good as gold. 
Fear is the race-horse of the coward. 
Sleep is the nightly vidette of death. 
Never doubt a good and true friend. 
Self government is best government. 



TRUTH 15 



Intense temperance is intemperance. 
Death and the barber yell — "next!" 
Opportunity is the vidette of ability. 
Never be familiar with an unequal. 
By and by is in the land of nowhere. 
The most universal success is failure ! 
There is no victory without venture. 
Wisdom and gold are glorious twins. 
Those conquer who believe they will. 
A negative man is a positive failure. 
Falsehood is the father of fanaticism. 
A great man ever believes in himself. 
Excessive delight often ends in grief. 
Death has no delinquent tax payers. 
Gold gotten by dishonor is too dear. 
Sudden riches make sudden poverty. 
Ignorance and fear generate cowards. 
An unlucky friend is poor company. 
Your conduct and friends are alike. 
Poets are the most potent preachers. 
Pride and vanity lead to destruction. 
The man lives longest who lives best. 
Self commanding is all commanding. 
One more heart-beat and we are not! 
There is no friendship without faith. 



16 TRUTH 

A great man can afford to seem little. 
Poetry is the golden fabric of the soul. 
Danger is the beacon light of glory. 
Great gifts are breakers of friendship. 
Generosity should generate gratitude. 
Praising your neighbor props yourself. 
Virtue, like water, ever seeks its level. 
Greed for gold is a torturing passion. 
Fire, flood and greed are bad masters. 
The greatest men have the least envy. 
A leap in the dark is the act of a fool. 
Experience is the mother of memory. 
A bad example is a contagious disease. 
A muddy mind makes a beastly body. 
Tarnished chastity cannot be repaired. 
Constant complaint freezes friendship. 
Poetry cannot gild the pill of poverty. 
Charity and mercy are twins of truth. 
We ourselves are good or bad fortune. 
A lucid sentence needs no explanation. 
Wisdom epigrams explain themselves. 
The avaricious are inferior individuals. 
Hard work is the great helper of hope. 
We are what we think, eat and drink. 
The curse of a scoundrel is a blessing. 



TRUTH 17 



The saloon is the vestibule of the jail. 
A great head can rule a million hands. 
It requires an expert to cheat a cheat. 
The microbe is the master of the man. 
There is no holiday for envy and hate. 
Few sane men die without some fear. 
Gluttony is the grave digger of glory. 
Jesus Christ was a glorious iconoclast. 
Liberty and law are legitimate twins. 
Too much assertion results in failure. 
Indecision is the graveyard of slavery. 
Love and desire are convertible terms. 
The hyena of hypocrisy seldom sleeps. 
Sneers and insults die by inattention. 
Work and patience will cure poverty. 
Competence is a sofa of contentment. 
Decency is delicacy of heart and soul. 
Reason is the royal ruler of humanity. 
Old age is the relic of vanished youth, 
A stinging jest has often lost a friend. 
Sin is the Tabasco sauce of daily diet. 
Bigotry is the yoke mate of ignorance. 
Flattering a friend may prove his ruin. 
Risk will triumph where caution fails. 
Conscience and coal control the world. 



18 TRUTH 

Birth is trouble and death is triumph. 
Sincerity is a great element of success. 
Despair is the brave man's last trump. 
Fruit beyond our reach is sour anyhow. 
Doomsday is ever open for the guilty. 
The heaven of a miser is a hell of greed. 
A shameless person is a walking crime. 
Fast and weep and you'll be left alone. 
A petulant tongue is a poniard of pain. 
The mulberry leaf contains a silk dress. 
Farthings and figs are good physicians. 
Enough never satisfies greed or vanity. 
By courting danger we marry success. 
Dollars and decency delight every one. 
Wine makes man merry and miserable. 
Poetry is passion punctuated with love. 
Change is the only unchangeable thing. 
Epigrams are the edge-tools of thought. 
Necessity forces us to pocket our pride. 
Poverty and modesty are twin failures. 
Time is the tramp tattler of centuries. 
A botch workman will get botch wages. 
Planting diseased seed develops no corn. 
Bread and gold are priceless partners. 
Intense fear has little sense and no pity. 



TRUTH 19 



Misfortune moulds the greatest courage. 
Those who preach reform often deform! 
Pkick and pounds promulgate progress. 
Fame seldom escapes the shafts of envy. 
The bread of idleness is not digestible. 
The National Labor Day is a loafer day ! 
Anticipating evil is a step to its fruition. 
Truth is a constant rebuke to falsehood. 
True valor must be rooted in discretion. 
Time is continually creating and killing. 
Consistency is the lost jewel of equality. 
Crows and confidence are slow growers. 
The shortest life is the purest and best. 
Gold is the God of the nickel-soul miser. 
Prudence is the grand master of passion. 
Despair strikes the last blow for victory. 
The American is a synonym of freedom. 
Silence is the golden sign of philosophy. 
Freedom is the first bom child of Nature. 
Justice is often a name for court jugglery. 
The public press is the national preacher. 
Principle is the true leader of the people. 
Never do the right thing the wrong way. 
Debt is the tangled tether of temptation. 
Every wise saying is a text for a sermon. 



20 TRUTH 

No public man is greater than his office. 
Folly is the prime minister of vain glory. 
Tolerating wrong encourages destruction. 
Expectation has many disappointments. 
Circumstance is the monarch of mankind. 
Conscious guilt is a cowardly companion. 
Your pillow is often your best counsellor. 
Lucky men secretly applaud themselves. 
Pride of character is the prop of progress. 
Every person leads a double or triple life. 
Reason is often a slave of tyrant custom. 
The greatest old age advances backward. 

By helping everybody we help ourselves. 

Every day we build or break character. 

A great idea dynamites the worst wrong. 

Security is next door neighbor to danger. 

It is easier to catch cold than catch cash. 

A wink is the best speech at an auction. 

A flattering tongue is a sneaking enemy. 

Wisdom is expressed in the fewest words. 

A desperado may become quickly a hero. 

Sorrow and suffering are spurs to genius. 

Those who cannot command must obey. 

Cheating and stealing are cunning chums. 

Fear and cruelty are co-partners of Satan. 



TRUTH 21 



Affectation is the thin veneering of a fool. 
Dwelling on defeat makes it more intense. 
The mind is mirrored in the countenance. 
Political compromise ends in final failure. 
Death to tyrants is compensating justice. 
Ceremony is the gauze of false friendship. 
Your cunning often discovers your crime. 
Truth based on work is ever triumphant. 
Strenuous life produces an earthly death. 
Increase of wealth brings additional care. 
Laughter often cloaks the deepest sorrow. 
Great misfortune develops true character. 
Over capitalization is financial overthrow. 
An obedient wife commands her husband. 
The perfectly contented person is coffined. 
Cheap labor is rotten labor in a Republic. 
Hitting, and not talking, wins the battle. 
Science is the Adjutant General of Truth. 
Meal, and not words, fills the kitchen bag. 
Poetry is the passionate music of the soul. 
An ass prefers shucks and thistles to oats. 
Gentleness is the private route to success. 
Extreme caution has often lost the battle. 
Money is the magic magician of mankind. 
Human nature is stronger than human law. 



22 TRUTH 

Turn a deaf ear and dark face to scandal. 
A big reason is stronger than a big stick. 
As we live here but once, let us live well. 
No one can be sure of another day of life. 
Envy follows close on the heels of success. 
The hide of the ass is made for the stick. 
Daily conduct is the true test of character. 
Constancy is the rugged oak of all virtues. 
A bully is a coward disguised by bluster. 
A bushel of wheat may make a rich miller. 
Toast bread and favors are soon forgotten. 

Divorce is the cancer of home destruction. 

The loss of credit is the loss of citizenship. 

He who does not care will not win or wear. 

The rain on the hills will grind at the mills. 

Love and flowers sweeten the bread of life. 

Patriotism is the pyramid of a Republic. 

The virtuous look upon disgrace as death. 

Many once remembered are soon forgotten. 

Virtue and honor outlast riches and fraud. 

Conscience is the only true court of justice. 

Love and hate eat bread at the same table. 

Bread to the toothless is a trying necessity. 

Time strengthens truth, weakens pretense. 

Discretion defeats impulse and impudence. 



TRUTH 23 



Truth is the sovereign blessing of mankind. 
The people rule, who have gold and reason. 
Soul and heart fire the tongue of eloquence. 
^Loyalty to royalty is treason to the people. 
Idleness is the mother of hunger and crime. 
Character is ever supreme over reputation. 
Virtue is an inspiration from Omnipotence. 
Gold, greed and gall stumble to a final fall. 
The bark of a dog dies in the roar of a lion. 
Liberty and love are the parents of truth. 
The red flag is the wrong flag in a republic. 
Man is the best and worst animal in nature. 
The law of nature is surpassed by re-action. 

He who fears nothing is the greatest ruler. 

Continual borrowing is continual sorrowing. 

An unbridled tongue is an incurable disease. 

When hopes are cashed despair is smashed. 

Poetry is the passion flower of imagination. 

Eternal hope is the forerunner of certainty. 

Public opinion makes or unmakes any law. 

In sunny weather prepare for stormy hours. 

With three triumphs Pompey lost his head. 

Mammoth money making is misery making. 

The vilest weeds have undiscovered virtues. 

The redeeming quahty of charity is silence. 



24 TRUTH 

Amusement is the best medicine for sorrow. 
Sunrise, virtue and crime are daily visitors. 
• All the millionaire thieves are out of prison. 
A pound of caution is worth a ton of repair. 
Clemency to the cruel is caustic to the kind. 
He who feasts on credit will fast on failure. 
In the spirit realm all are equal and happy. 
Idleness is the father of hunger and crime. 
The beginning of life is the surety of death. 
We are most what we study, eat and drink. 
Glory is the golden glitter of fantastic fame. 
Never refer to former sorrows and disputes. 
Ingratitude breaks the dishes it feeds from. 
A wicked conscience is its own executioner. 
Calamity is the crucible that tests character. 
Experience is the blind man's schoolmaster. 
Affliction is the seed time of contemplation. 
No one is master of his birth, life and death. 
Many people are as lucid as a lump of mud ! 
Political booms burst like bloated bladders. 
The foolish buyers are in the large majority. 
We never forgive those who greatly help us. 
The tongue has often cut its master's throat. 
A popular proverb is as lasting as humanity. 
Patent paragraphs are pillars of philosophy. 



TRUTH 25 



Positive character has no negative weakness. 
Disappointment is the enemy of expectation. 
The perpetual motion is a perpetual failure. 
Modesty and virtue are twins of consolation. 
Idleness, dirt and poverty are bosom friends. 
Suspecting your fellows is doubting yourself. 
Candor is a brave virtue but a bad diplomat. 
Charity sees the need and not the individual. 
The fewest words express the greatest truth. 
There is no party stronger than gold interest. 
Diligence is the delight of duty and devotion. 
Debt is the dire delusion of false expectation. 
Dreamers and poets are pioneers of progress. 
To willingly obey is to deserve to command. 
Difficulties are the stepping stones to victory. 
A hurt in the heart and soul is never healed. 
God never wrote a line of any bible or creed. 
The best answer to an insult is a sudden hit. 
Despair is the last link in the chain of defeat. 
An ounce of certainty is worth a ton of hope. 
Greed for gold is the guilty pioneer of crime. 
Chains of gold often break the links of love. 
The good person has no reason to fear death. 
People without reason are beasts of brutality. 
Cause and efifect are inseparable companions. 



26 TRUTH 

Conscript soldiers have no patriotic courage. 
Virtuous people should avoid scandal gossips. 
Men of character can defy those of repetition. 
Courts are the slippery steps of uncertainty. 
Constant drippings will fill the leanest purse. 
Discord roams the earth with ragged dress. 
Bankruptcy of character is the worst failure. 
Virtuous deeds are loftier than royal lineage. 
The greatest smoke nuisance is the cigarette. 
The expedient often crowds out the excellent. 
Our best guardian angels are truth and work. 
Wise people seldom talk of their misfortunes. 
Success obtained by fraud is absolute failure. 
The compromising mushman is ever a failure. 
Solitude is the school for future conversation. 
Daily life and business needs financial grease. 
Sudden anger and passion lead to destruction. 
Poverty and ignorance are pathetic partners. 
Unlicensed liberty drifts into bloated bigotry. 
Confidence and success are close companions. 
Courage and cowardice are catching elements. 
Extreme civilization culminates in barbarism. 
Necessity is the father and mother of success. 
A pewter cup cannot be burnished into silver. 
Moral law is ever superior to government law. 



TRUTH 27 

The virtuous person is his own best company. 
Successful crime is often blazoned as a virtue. 
Man is but a chemical mass of spiritual gases. 
Gold and power tip the scales of even justice. 
Fits of fancy are finer than misfits of clothes. 
Every tyrant finds a scape goat for his crime. 
There is no reason for the creation of failures. 
Vinegar dispositions destroy the honey of life. 
Gold and ambition are the rulers of mankind. 
Those who desire success do not always get it. 
Sleep is the pleasant grave of earthly trouble. 
Necessity is the axe and plough of the farmer. 
Antiquity is no voucher for honesty or purity 
Anarchy of the mind will annihilate the body 
Patience is the plank road to perfect pleasure 
Bitter to the brave is the breakfast of charity. 
Old birds select the wheat and leave the chaff. 
When Greek fights Greek, Death is the dealer. 
Purple cloaks often cover a putrid conscience. 
Anarchy of the mind generates assassination. 
Divine revelation is only human imagination. 
Common danger generates faithful friendship. 
Teeth and tongue are constant grave diggers. 
The deepest grief finds no expression in words. 
Naked truth may shock, but never can shame. 



28 TRUTH 

"Don't care" is the original parent of poverty. 
Great knowledge is superior to glittering gold. 
Hit your enemy first and threaten afterwards. 
Chronic catarrh must have a rotten conscience. 
Principle has no policy and policy no principle. 
The leader and the led will very soon be dead. 
A proverb is perfect proof of positive principle. 
Moral training is superior to material training. 
Poverty and suspicion are vicious companions. 
Work will chase away the hounds of poverty. 
Literature is the perfumed garden of the soul. 
It is no honor to be a friend of certain people ! 
The death of a tyrant is the life of the people. 
Time and life keep us drifting to eternal sleep. 
Will power is the powder and lead of victory. 
The lawyer, like the strumpet, works for a fee. 
A selfish, tyrant character can never be great. 
There is nothing greater than human thought. 
Those who have deceived are seldom believed. 
Haste wastes water in filling an empty bottle. 
Little people like little pots are heated quickly. 
The highest policy is often the lowest morality. 
A decent dog is superior to an ungrateful man. 
The poorest man who loves his country is rich. 
Power acquired by guilt is lost by treachery. 



TRUTH 29 

The Jesuit jails the mind of justice and Hberty. 
Ideals are the wrungs in the ladders of victory. 
Bad manners should be manicured by a mallet. 
Integrity is inborn, and not an acquired virtue. 
Suspicion, envy and fear are incurable diseases. 
Trade and talk are the roads to market money. 
Thank God every day that it is not any worse. 
Were there no receiver there would be no thief. 
Better laugh in your heart than in your sleeve. 
Life without friends is like a tree without fruit. 
The early riser will catch cold, worms and fish. 
Giving to the wicked injures the good and wise. 
Giving with the hope of receiving is base usury. 
Envy banquets on the body and bones of merit. 
All men are equal before the law, if they buy it. 
A good cobbler is better than a bad shoemaker. 
Many great men are very little when found out. 
The plunger for principle is the leader of power. 
An independent soul is the greatest gift of God. 
Vicious vanity is the vice of the vacant varlet. 
Grieving for the impossible is the act of a fool. 
Hope can carry a heavy load of gold and glory. 
A man who limits his abihty lessens his success. 
Conquering a bad habit is the greatest victory. 
Poverty of the soul is the greastet degradation. 



30 TRUTH 

Small people are great in their own estimation. 
Love and peace are your best breakfast guests. 
Expense should ever be subordinate to income. 
Vices colored by virtuous actions are vices still. 
Never contract any debts that you cannot pay. 
Justice is the cornerstone of every other virtue. 
The darkest fate may be lightened by fortitude. 
Age ripens us as fruit for celestial consumption. 
Weakness invites attack and strength repels it. 
Suicide is a cross between courage and bravery. 
Bread, cheese and kisses are crumbs of comfort. 
Disease and the Doctor are dangerous visitors. 
No one remains very long the oldest inhabitant. 
Contented poverty is better than weary wealth. 
The bitterest medicine makes the quickest cure. 
Egotism based on personal wisdom is justifiable. 
Wisdom, wealth and running water ever change. 
The prodigal of time soon meets the undertaker. 
Good manners are letters of credit to a stranger. 
Money helps to heal the deepest scars of sorrow. 
Necessity and Ambition are pilgrims of progress. 
The angler and the poet are natural co-partners. 
Grand achievements alone give title of nobility. 
The severest critics are those who cannot create. 
A varnished lie is a great tribute to naked truth. 



TRUTH 

A dose of discretion is better than a dozen pills. 
It is ever dear to buy from a wandering huxter. 
Anger is the worst guest you can take to dinner. 
A day of work will outweigh a week of wishing. 
The tongue of the foolish is a rod of wickedness. 
The Senator from Cuba rises to a point of order ! 
Wanting more than you need is constant misery. 
The charity that begins at home spreads abroad. 
The most cunning counterfeiter detects himself. 
Crime and punishment are inevitable partners. 

Honest doubting may end in positive conviction. 
Courtesy and virtue are inseparable companions. 

Maxims are the milestones of intense experience. 

Depending on another destroys individual effort. 

Violated modesty never survives a willing insult. 

The greatest disgrace is idleness and ingratitude. 

Nature is a constructive and destructive mystery. 

Soft words are physicians for distempered minds. 

Be careful in promise, but quick in performance. 

Decent diet cures more ills than devoted doctors. 

Delay and haste have lost alike present victories. 

The keenest vice is clothed in virtuous garments. 

When hope is gone, no Hght can gild the gloom. 

The chastisement of love has no hate in the lash. 

A broadcloth suit does not fit well on a peasant. 



32 TRUTH 

Envy, like a hound, pursues the peerless runner. 
It is great to be generous, but greater to be just. 
A scar of crime on the heart can never be erased. 
The living coward may gloat over the dead hero. 
God alone is responsible for birth, life and death. 
Suspicion is an enemy to virtue and happiness. 
The birth of anything is the death of everything. 
Flattery is an insinuating insult to an able man. 
Willing work will kill the wiles of wicked worry. 
Honesty does not herd long with cattle of crime. 
There are no weapons strong enough to arm fear. 
We can multiply our years by dividing our work. 
A genius has no capacity to take care of himself. 
A tyrant Judiciary is the worst curse of a nation. 
A poor start in the race of life makes a bad finish. 
When your sword is short let your jump be long. 
The air we breathe is the immortality of the soul. 
The rich who are vexed by trifles have no peace. 
Good luck follows in the wake of persistent work. 
Nerve, knowledge and luck are sisters of success. 
The fuller the human cask the less noise it emits. 
The triumphs of trickery and fraud are transient. 
The brutal sows of wealth eat their own progeny. 
The good farmer and weeds are deadly enemies. 
The smallest enemy may do the greatest injury. 



TRUTH 33 

The agreeable man is the philosopher of society. 
Comfort with conscience is concentrated pleasure. 
The head should ever be commander of the heels. 
He who is ever prepared to die leads a happy life. 
Envy and selfishness are ingrained in humanity. 
A jolly failure breaks the back of disappointment. 
Courage, with truth and action, is ever victorious. 
Study, work and economy are triplets of triumph. 
The human countenance is a chart of character. 
Vanity and selfishness are handmaids of. tyranny. 
Christmas is the cashier of charity and generosity. 
Shoe pinchers of thought foot the bills of iniquity. 
Friendship is the most fragrant flower of the soul. 
Memory is the magic wizard of pleasure and pain. 
The most deadly weapons are the arrows of guilt. 
It is impossible to destroy a truly good character. 
A lofty thought is never sown on barren ground. 
Doing too much is worse than not doing enough. 
Mother Earth is a host who murders every guest. 
New Year is the nesting time of good resolutions. 
Poverty makes a person a coward or a desperado. 
More work and less talk will increase your salary. 
You will learn more by listening than by talking. 
Great cities are secret sewers of plot and passion. 
Poverty is a marked crime even in its own circle. 



34 TRUTH 

A good man is better alone than in bad company. 
Those who govern by terror die by the same rule. 
The tears of the funeral are dried at the wedding. 
It is an easy matter to compromise with a corpse. 
There is no pathway without a puddle or pit-fall. 
Better wear diamonds of the soul than of the suit. 
The Jew is jostled by jealousy but wins by work. 
A stand-still nation is a rusty and dying country. 
Break the legs of a bad habit or it will break you. 
He who gives an insult must be ready to take one. 
The commercial Jap is as crooked as a dog's leg. 
It is easier to prevent a bad habit than reform it. 
Rushing fortune tramples on the sneaking coward. 
Sudden wealth and fame are dangerous partners. 
Wisdom, wealth and nerve control the continents. 
Suspicion scars the soul that secretly entertains it. 
Why does not the Creator kill wicked temptation? 
The superior nature ever rules the inferior mortal. 
Ingratitude is the infidelity of a natural scoundrel. 
Weakness, cunning and selfishness generate fraud. 
Abstinence is the strongest defense against disease. 
Fanatical religion is the nursery of human slavery. 
Promptness and honesty are the props of business. 
Gambling is the intoxicating draught of the idler. 
Never judge or condemn on one-sided testimony. 



TRUTH 35 

The sunshine of friendship melts the coldest heart. 
Never build a fine house on another man's ground. 
An honest detective is the noblest work of society. 
"My policy" is only another name for my tyranny. 
The virginity of truth repels the vice of vulgarity. 
Party spirit should never dominate national glory. 
Sickness and poverty are the greatest misfortunes. 
Patronage sometimes wins a presidential election. 
The brain babies are most mischievous youngsters. 
Pin-head people propagate pauperism and crime. 
We repay great obligations with secret ingratitude. 
Laughter, like sunshine, permeates every situation. 
Bigotry and hate follow their victims to the grave. 
The wise should never display their flags of failure. 
A crown of love and joy dulls the thorns of sorrow. 
The bases of the base-ball game is the gate money. 
He who is false to himself cannot be true to others. 
Subjects for the gallows are born in every country. 
The suicide of your enemy is the greatest revenge. 
Mind and money are the main-masts of manhood. 
Gold gotten without cost is quickly spent and lost. 
A gift bearer is a welcome guest in any household. 
There is no heaven for the loafer and the criminal. 
Time, and not reason, is the true healer of sorrow. 
Bad thoughts and bad actions lead to a bad death. 



36 TRUTH 

Jesus is just and God-like in his truthful teaching. 
Do not wait for another bird to feather your nest. 
A regiment of heroes will whip a corps of cowards. 
It is better to lose your cash than your character. 
The tongue is often the grave digger of our hopes. 
The first step in crime is the last step in happiness. 
There is no limit to nervous and sentimental fear. 
Make well enough better, talk, but write no letter. 
The greatest and the best are bothered by unrest. 
Decision of character is the crown-jewel of success. 
Peace is but the nesting and hatching time of war. 
Anxiety about future misfortune is present misery. 
Good and bad behavior are as infectious as disease. 
A divine and benign fanatic is a mysterious citizen. 
He who rebels against wrong revolves for the right. 
Poetic fame is the essence of earthly immortality. 
There are worse companions than poverty and love. 
When law cannot catch a criminal tyrant, lead can. 
War with justice is better than peace with tyranny. 
Productive and valuable work is your best indorser. 
Mixed metaphors are as common as mixed motives. 
Dirt, doubt and duplicity are devils of destruction. 
Appetite and digestion will relish the roughest meal. 
Moderate eating and drinking are your best doctors. 
Reputation is often won and lost without deserving. 



TRUTH 37 

Daring deeds are the drastic decorations of divinity. 
Man may manage war, but cannot manage weather. 
Vice and happiness have no speaking acquaintance. 
Constant complaining brings sure aihng and faihng. 
Better defeat with honor than victory with shame. 
A bluffing, blustering, egotistical talker ends in ruin. 
Learning without wisdom is like a pie without fruit. 
Ridicule is the revolver that punctures politicians. 
Poverty and patience should be congenial brothers. 
Love and laughter can digest the roughest victuals. 
The riches of a literary genius outlive all calamities. 
Men, like crows, seek their various roosts at sunset. 
Deceit, dirt and damnation are triplets of the devil. 
Between the precipice and the wolf, stone the beast. 
The dice box of God is ever loaded with triple sixes. 
The American Jew is a bold, brilliant business man. 
One-sided courtesy and generosity do not last long. 
Royal famihes of long lineage are of short duration. 
The loftiest poet has a lightning streak of insanity. 
Credulity in a prince is punishment to his subjects. 
Tyrants and tigers should be shot out of existence. 
Love, confidence and cash will help us to happiness. 
Man is the lord of reason and philosopher of speech. 
Faults in the poor are only eccentricities in the rich. 
Trouble comes by the ton and leaves by the pound. 



38 TRUTH 

Wealth secured by fraud is lost by pride and folly. 
Self-reliance is the safety valve of a sensible citizen. 
The applause of the mob is dangerous to the State. 
An ounce of performance is worth a ton of promise. 
Nature is the very last creditor we think of paying. 
Better the royalty of labor than the luxury of case. 
Conscience sits as judge in the soul of the universe. 
Greed and gold are the incentives to work and war. 
The lead cure is the only sure medicine for tyrants. 
Better be a free wood pigeon than a captive prince. 
He who loves his fellow man is the greatest citizen. 
Reasoning with a fool is a waste of words and time. 
Life feeds on life and death is caterer for the worm. 
It is easier to break a young colt than an old habit. 
Perseverance and pride are pile-drivers of prosperity. 
Egotism is often another name for matchless ability. 
Good luck follows continuous good words and work. 
The editorial preacher occupies his pulpit every day. 
The poorest freeman is better than the richest slave. 
Purity of principle is a daily promoter of prosperity. 
People will take your cash quicker than your advice. 
A tender heart is a poor attorney for a tyrant head. 
The longest day is short to the bright business man. 
The Reaper Death has a harvest of eternal summers. 
When sensual pleasure ceases, spiritual glory begins. 



TRUTH 39 

Famous ancestors have produced infamous posterity. 
Favors granted without asking are doubly valuable. 
vSuspicion, envy and greed are sleepless companions. 
Education has never civilized envy, greed and hate. 
Gold, girls and good dinners are delicious diplomats. 
Desperate valor often conquers the smiles of fortune. 
Worthless wives make woeful want in the household. 
The soldier wreck is an object of pathetic patriotism. 
Commerce and war follow the cross and the crescent. 
Humming or singing at your work makes labor light. 
Many men have a great faculty for making mistakes. 
Management of many affairs mangles some of them. 
Self -development is more sensible than self-sacrifice. 
There is no such a thing as disinterested friendship. 
Money makes the miser miserable in his dying hours. 
Assertion with a blow is a very convincing argument. 
Radical resolution for a good end is ever triumphant. 
Hoping, hopping and helping move the world along. 
Your best introductory letter is a hundred-dollar bill. 
The shrewdest robber leaves foot prints of his crimes. 
Posterity will "mark time" at my tomb and thought. 
We secretly dislike those who have helped us greatly. 
Rickety chairs and false friends will break under you. 
Greed, envy, hate and war have never been civilized. 
Bad thoughts and bad company make a bad ending. 



40 TRUTH 

Loud talk and abuse are marks of malicious mortals. 
Calm virtue and bravery deprive death of its terrors. 
Counterfeit men and coin are soon or later detected. 
A charity dinner is a lesson of conscious humiliation. 
Strikes and riots are the skirmish lines of revolution. 
Mental grief kills as many people as material trouble. 
The richest man is he who desires and needs the least. 
A false word like dynamite destroys a man or a city. 
The viper of lust desire will poison a palace of peace. 
You never will be wise by another man's experience. 
Teachers of morality should be men who practice it. 
The stalled ox and tyrant do not want investigation. 
The grain of kindness is vastly increased by sowing. 
The noble soul hopes on forever, the abject despair. 
Great conquerors leave ruin and glory in their track. 
We should thank God for entertaining a just vanity. 
Genius is ever wrecked on the rocks of intemperance. 
All things begin to die the moment they are created. 
A bad man, like a rotten apple, destroys his fellows. 
The love of admiration makes many a person a hero. 
Love, loyalty and labor are the trinity of the nation. 
Love is the poetry of passion and delight of delusion. 
Great men, like lofty temples, fall with a great crash. 
Living without honor or respect is worse than no life. 
The dragon of doubt dives into the valley of despair. 



TRUTH 41 

By the sword and the purse a nation is perpetuated. 
Change of fortune need not be a change of character. 
Truth and trade touch the world of labor and capital. 
Poverty has rocked the cradle of many a great man. 
Work is the lever and truth the fulcrum of triumph. 
Never abuse a man to another man behind his back. 
An ignorant, poverty person is as useless as a corpse. 
How would you like to be treated that way yourself? 
Cares and crosses are rungs in the ladder of victory. 
A flawless character is as rare as a flawless diamond. 
He who destroys a tyrant deserves a crown of glory. 
A hint will manage a gentleman, and a club a clown. 
Our best friends in age or misfortune are good books. 
The first stroke in crime is a fatal blow to conscience. 
Many a one eats bread by the sweat of another brow. 
The mansion is in the mind before it is in the marble. 
A busy man will not insist on a visitor taking a chair. 
Pumping from a dry well is a waste of work and time. 
The best diplomatic minister for monarchy is money. 
Every person is a conscious or unconscious hypocrite. 
Grieving over losses increases your amount of trouble. 
Intelligent work speaks much louder than your voice. 
Education can never make straight a crooked nature. 
Doubting your own ability is destruction of endeavor. 
Sympathy, sincerity and sobriety are steps to success. 



42 TRUTH 

Small performance is much better than large promise. 
Answer a fool in his talk and a wise man in his silence. 
A corrupt and cunning heart makes a cowardly hand. 
Millionaire Senators have made miserable legislators. 
Deliberation and execution should be prompt friends. 
Criticising intimate friends is a thankless undertaking. 
The optimist wears a bright and imperishable flower. 
Corrupt wealth is ever against virtuous encroachment. 
Purchased political power ceases when pounds depart. 
Providence and patriotism are co-partners of progress. 
Bullets are the greatest messengers of human liberty. 
Necessity breaks down the strongest barriers of nature. 
We never rebuke anyone for flattering our weakness. 
Brilliant thoughts are the rough diamonds of oratory. 
Society respectability consists in not being found out. 
Many criminals to prevent detection should die today. 
Honest and constant work will assure a living income. 
Spending time and money lavishly is the act of a fool. 
Remorse for past folly is a waste of thought and time. 
He who keeps his temper keeps property and friends. 
Happy are healthy people who are content with little. 
Dirt is the debased scourings of the devil's household. 
Gentle words and prompt action are tools of triumph. 
The law-maker often becomes the worst law breaker. 
Time, temperance and work turn the trick of success. 



TRUTH 43 

Promotion through merit is best for giver and receiver. 
Slavery of mind and body are the worst earthly evils. 
The business man is the best man in any community. 
Public opinion is the most potent power in the world. 
Finding and silently keeping a lost purse is stealing it. 
Individual man is but a symptom of the human race. 
The sneak, coward and tyrant hate to hear the truth. 
The great man has a clean brain, heart and daily hfe. 
Belief and trust in something is the way to get things. 
A man with a hobby is at least interesting to himself. 
A clean conscience in a clean body makes a clean life. 
No man who is a true man can be another man's man. 
A half-witted friend is more of a nuisance than a fool. 
The lawyer behind the legal lie is the villain of the age. 
He who will not defend his liberty will soon be a slave. 
The secret, lonely liquor drinker is his own undertaker. 
He who will not take counsel will take condemnation. 
Every Caesar, at his pinnacle of glory, had his Brutus. 
Grieving in public is the worst kind of social hypocrisy. 
Believe a tricky politician and a harlet the same day. 
Word friendship cannot compare with cash friendship. 
Financial affairs should be concluded before disclosed. 
Historical research is the entering wedge of knowledge. 
The political straddler is a prospective political failure. 
Conscience is the culminating crown of contentment. 



44 TRUTH 

Courage and chastity are invincible elements of victory. 
Soul imprisonment is far worse than stone confinement. 
Courage and fortitude will conquer in every misfortune. 
Kissing and political appointment go by personal favor. 
Honest poverty is terribly tested by golden temptation. 
Injustice and depravity are sanctioned by cruel custom. 
Irrepressible hope is the original vidette of immortality. 
Passionate temper detracts from the strength of ability. 
Conquering man is conquered by the conquering worm. 
Fortune found by fraud vanishes like the morning mist. 
The wisest men occasionally do the most foolish things. 
Dollars and decency are the best letters of introduction. 
A thoughtless and careless person is a dangerous friend. 
Justice and financial interest are not on speaking terms. 
Constant political agitation is the salvation of a nation. 
Rushing, radical men become quickly great or a corpse. 
The snow can never successfully compete with the sun. 
Crops need good seed, good farmers and good weather. 
When diplomats speak the truth they are not believed. 
There is less hypocrisy in a tavern than in a tabernacle. 
Idleness and sleep are the heaviest taxes we pay in life. 
Vain little man is often the victim of his own verbosity. 
The envious and idle are toll-gate keepers for the devil. 
A brave, jolly and contented old man is a cheering sight. 
Home without heart is like a cold hearth without a fire. 



TRUTH 45 

A faithful dog is better and greater than a false friend. 
The cyclone is the soaring song and soul of the Infinite. 
The gall of bitter words spoils the honey of just actions. 
Cheating in the price and the goods is a double swindle. 
Positive and absolute men are most prone to mistakes. 
The tyrant few steal power from the thoughtless many. 
Put your trust in principle and not palpitating people. 
Soul liberty is the polar star of independent humanity. 
One-sided harmony and compromise will end in failure. 
Individual virtue is the great prop of public prosperity. 
A drafted soldier is a doubtful and dangerous support. 
Charity of soul and heart are ministering angels of love. 
He who flatters you without reason is not your friend. 
The honest poor are far happier than the criminal rich. 
The eunuchs of morality are so from age and necessity. 
Those who war against fate have failure for their folly. 
A blot on white paper and character is suddenly seen. 
The dearest friend may play the guest once too often. 
Truth is the toughest element in the world of morality. 
There is no calamity that a brave man cannot endure. 
The person is great who can sacrifice pleasure to duty. 
Club life is a confession of personal vanity or weakness. 
Here and now is the place for pleasure and prosperity. 
A happy heart and a full purse are genial companions. 
Swearing is a sign of vulgarity and poverty of thought. 



46 TRUTH 

Talk and act pleasant and people will pay you in kind. 
Time moves slow to the idle and fast to the industrious. 
The poor and the weak are ever the victims of injustice. 
We must sacrifice our dignity for the prize of victory. 
Some men like the jackass may be known by their bray. 
Does anybody believe that a real virgin ever bore a son ? 
The greatest fool is the man who thinks he knows it all. 
The man of the hour will soon be the man of oblivion. 
An ass richly loaded with purple and gold is still an ass. 
Hope is the honey of life and doubt the gall of suspicion. 
Dealing with a man of words is like fondling a pet bear. 
The tongue of the wise is a sword of defense and power. 
It is the value and not the volume of things that counts. 
It is not the verdict, but crime, that makes the convict. 
Government by commission may lead to dark perdition. 
Conservative consideration is the court of jealous justice. 
Many people enjoy pleasure with a funeral countenance. 
No monument of clime or time has ever glorified a crime. 
He lived a life of ninety years and never generated tears. 
When the fox becomes a monk the chickens go to sleep. 
Brain and bullion can enact and annul any human law. 
Write your vengeance in water and your love in granite. 
The bumping bucket is ever battered by the stony well. 
The most infinitesimal particle of air is equal to all of it. 
The best way to treat a sardonic sneer is not to notice it. 



TRUTH 47 

Being right in the day of battle is worth a thousand men. 
Too much law is worse than no law, for self-preservation. 
The bowels and brain are confidential business partners. 
Assassination kills the tyrant, but prolongs the tyranny. 
Truth, memory and eloquence make the greatest preachers. 
Prosperity tests your enemies and adversity your friends. 
Unequal and tyrannical laws create famine and revolution. 
Subjective soul sentiment is superior to objective influence. 
Pretense, policy and peculation prevail among many men. 
Poverty and cowardice are the worst enemies of mankind. 
Fortune without contentment is like labor without love. 
Passion and success are the flatterers of wealthy iniquity. 
The willing, cheerful, sober man will ever find employment. 
The greatest and most cowardly mob crimes go unpunished. 
Soul-lit, lofty aspiration makes a grand, enduring nation. 
Religious fanatics are the worst enemies of personal liberty. 
Statute law cannot eradicate the original crimes of nature. 
. Silent men like plump oysters have luscious internal value. 
Intellect, labor and generosity are co-partners of progress. 
Human nature is more powerful than the supreme court. 
The man with strong brain will command golden bullion. 
The persistent, honest bigot is only dangerous to himself. 
The true statesman never barters his conscience for oihce. 
A fool may not be a criminal, but a criminal is ever a fool. 
If the cap of thought does not fit, it is foolish to wear it. 



48 TRUTH 

It is doing God's work to kill any kind of a tiger or tyrant. 
Only in life for a little day and then a lump of coffined clay. 
Irrepressible hope and a brave heart are never conquered. 
The hungry stomach without ears cannot listen to reason. 
A dollar is the devoted, delighted dispenser of hospitality. 
Habit is the heaviest harness worn by fashionable fools. 
Never accept a gift that will humble your independence. 
The most eloquent preacher is often the greatest pharisee. 
Truth is battered every hour but maintains eternal power. 
Curses and prayers from the same mouth are unavailing. 
The cloak of hypocrisy covers the undershirt of ingratitude. 
The banker, broker and butcher are boomers of business. 
Poverty and prosperity reveal our true friends and enemies. 
A crooked mind and body cannot perform straight deeds. 
When the soul or breath leaves the body it dies instanter. 
It requires a great character to fight and conquer a sneer. 
High birth and low training is bad form for a gentleman. 
Those who are ready and willing to die conquer the grave. 
The simplicity of truth is the surest sign of its immortality. 
Pay cash for what you need and don't plant rotten seed. 
The defeated Party is entitled to the "growl," all they get. 
Sunshine you will ever find follows storms of air and mind. 
The prize of the criminal is soon lost in secret speculation. 
Those who are rail-roaded by Death have no return ticket. 
Better meet a danger instanter than fear it in the future. 



TRUTH 49 

Devotion for any subject is a sure road to victorious results. 
The poetry of prose is stronger than the prose of poetry. 
My truth and soul nerve have ever been my best supporters. 
The brass kettle is an enemy to the beautiful earthen pot. 
Great brain and heart must combine to make a great poet. 
The brains in a book are more valuable than any binding. 
A light heart makes a merry dancer even in rough clogs. 
Prudence and principle are the main props of prosperity. 
Those who think justly and endure bravely are happiest. 
Pretense without principle is a morning-glory of ambition. 
Lightning, thunder and rain shiver the earth with pain. 
Principle sacrifices to policy every day in every business. 
Bankruptcy in soul is worse than bankruptcy in shillings. 
Bravery and truth, like old brandy, need no rectification. 
A selfish and desperate leader is destined to destruction. 
Those who are praised to-day may be censured to-morrow. 
Punishment pursues crime as closely as night follows day. 
Desperate mind and rapid force find fortune in adversity. 
A demagogue is a duplicate deceiver of dastard destruction. 
A secret without value may be uttered with indifference. 
Life is serious and seeming; keen hypocrisy of dreaming. 
Impulsive generosity is often the cause of our misfortune. 
We learn many valuable lessons from a sneaking enemy. 
Bankers, brokers and boomers are the pioneers of business. 
Those who lie, rob and murder are wretched everywhere. 



50 TRUTH 

Contention with ignorance is a waste of words and wisdom. 
Hesitation and equivocation are the sneaking sisters of a He. 
Those who have the fewest wants have the most happiness. 
The poHtical demagogue, Hke the poor, is always with us. 
KindHng the fire of hate garners the ashes of destruction. 
The most beautiful bouquet is a symphony of loving deeds. 
"Blood will tell" when poured on the altar of patriotism. 
A cynical smile and sneer are weapons of invincible power. 
Cold and humiliating is the dinner set by public charity. 
The master is often the unconscious slave of his servant. 
Labor is the master of food, clothes, shelter and pleasure. 
Daily business is the real boss of every brilliant success. 
My soul is the Delphian Oracle of my literary expression. 
The tyranny of Capital is the breeder of "Night Riders"! 
The scars of divorce leave a trail of shimmering shame. 
Men and nations are best cultivated when they are free. 
Lovers once but strangers now, false to every votive vow. 
Heroes are wanted badly in war, but neglected in peace. 
Every heart-beat sounds the funeral knell of our existence. 
Wisdom words work their way through a world of difficulty. 
Pounds and politeness pry" open the doors of any domicile. 
War with honor is far better than peace with humiliation. 
Making your work your pleasure is instant joy and treasure. 
Converting an enemy into a friend is an impossible feat. 
Birth, life and death are the triple milestones to eternity. 



TRUTH 51 

Early rising, study and planting beat the late and lazy. 
The family fireside is the best altar of human happiness. 
The music of the forest choir surpasses every human lyre. 
Great temptation is the real test of honesty and character. 
Anger lets down the bars of safety and invites invaders. 
Lofty and exalted spirits are the airy eagles of mankind. 
When the people cease to think and vote, tyranny prevails. 
Purity of character is the most glorious gift of happiness. 
A country of law without conscience is devoted to death. 
The ignorant tyrant is far more cruel than the intelligent. 
The brain, tongue and hand are the triumvirs of victory. 
Bullets are more triumphant in war than reason and virtue. 
The willing horse is ridden to death by thankless ingrates. 
Reason and electricity are gradually destroying monarchy. 
Pushing persistency prevails in every good undertaking. 
Public opinion controls empires, kingdoms and republics. 
Suspicious and petulant parents make treacherous children. 
Financial interest breaks the strongest human friendship. 
Cunning, pretense and hypocrisy are suicidal implements. 
The cunning customer crumbles into commercial failure. 
Acquired cultivation is never superior to natural ability. 
The tyranny of monarchy hatched the American Republic. 
Bravery should meet calamity with calmness and serenity. 
Those who become suddenly rich become suddenly poor. 
Money moves the manhood and mechanism of mankind. 



52 TRUTH 

Riches will disclose your flatterers, poverty your friends. 
Constant application to one subject will generate success. 
Round numbers when standing alone amount to nothing. 
Every man who does well deserves periodical promotion. 
Daily work and economy are guarantees against poverty. 
Every day is the best day if we think and act that way. 
He spent the last day of his life at his desk doing good ! 
A scar on the body is healed quicker than one on the mind. 
A calf that associates with a pig will soon learn to eat dirt. 
A corn field may not have eyes, but it has good long ears. 
A brave man will quickly agree with another brave man. 
The wise man meditates on the consequence of every act. 
He who knows himself best is modest, polite and generous. 
vSuspicion and envy are tributes that vice pays to virtue. 
The Dictionary is better and more accurate than any bible. 
The sweetest songs are surcharged with a strain of sadness. 
The hypocrite of humility is the secret bully of audacity. 
A hungry appetite gives rare relish to the roughest meal. 
The Salvation Army are trying to save the drunken army. 
Words of wisdom wing their winning way down the ages. 
The party that constantly attacks in politics or war wins. 
Anger blinds a man to his interest and generates enemies. 
Laughter and hope are the most genial companions of life. 
A virtuous minority is far superior to a vicious majority. 
Ignorance, hate and poverty will ruin any home or state. 



TRUTH 53 

Noble ancestry can never gild the crimes of their posterity. 

Maxims are milestones of reason on the road to rectitude. 

Many persons starve for love and food in stately mansions. 

Money is the great lever and fulcrum of political success. 

Great excellence is envied in life and monumented in death. 

Religion is the greatest consolation to the soul of sorrow. 

Those who work well to-day have no fear for to-morrow. 

He who is ever prepared for disappointment never feels it. 
He who equips himself as a walking arsenal invites attack. 
The dust of the prince and the pauper are indistinguishable. 
The art of successful war is the highest modern civilization. 
The automobile continues to be the executioner of the rich. 
The "yes" and "no" man is generally successful in business. 
Sentiment is the soul of success and the pivot of patriotism. 
The chariot wheels of time rive ruts in the bravest faces. 
The smallest grain of gold dust holds the soul of sublimity. 
A drop of poison thought will destroy a pint of pleasure. 
Wit and humor are the wine and bread of generous society. 
One man right is stronger than a multitude of men wrong. 
A trapped politician, like a rat, squeels and bites in vain. 
Riches are but golden rungs in the ladder of losing life. 
A gimlet mind must not attempt to make an auger hole. 
To achieve greatness is more glorious than to be born so. 
Money goes from day to day, but virtue never fades away. 
It is far better to pawn your watch than your conscience. 



54 TRUTH 

The one-man power has caused the death of many nations. 
Miserable is the man who attends the funeral of his hopes. 
Certainty in a friend is the very essence of daily pleasure. 
Spring is getting awful tired of winter lingering in her lap. 
The fraud and the fool have the same symptoms of failure. 
We are rated by the world by our own persistent measure. 
Greed and envy closely allied are never right or civilized. 
Ridiculing the wretched is the act of a heartless coward. 
Party leaders who lose are the promoters of those who win. 
People are still clothed by flax, cotton, wool, fur and silk. 
Poor, indeed, is the newspaper that has no drastic opinions. 
When hope is the only coachman, poverty is the passenger. 
Money without brains is as useless as beauty without sense. 
Courage in adversity is the lamp that lights us to victory. 
The best of people have vices and the worst have virtues. 
Fraud and wealth are ever at war with honesty and work. 
Light, air and truth are the God-like elements of creation. 
Self-belief, self-respect and self-help are bracers of victory. 
We never truly forgive or forget the deep wounds of defeat. 
A stormy sunset is often the harbinger of a glorious sunrise. 
The lion devours the deer and the worm devours them both. 
Life is not worth living when love and truth are absent. 
It is a poor Congress that cannot increase its own salary. 
Length of days without length of virtue is length of misery. 
Lincoln was loftier than the men and questions of his time. 



TRUTH 55 

There are very few men who can talk long and talk well. 
The best poetry of life is the potent power of devoted deeds. 
Day by day we lose our life, passing from all earthly strife. 
A good fruit tree is often more valuable than a family tree. 
The true and brave soldier is the first citizen of a Republic. 
The flower of pity blossoms in the heart of every good man. 
When you are offered a great bargain go to the next market. 
A sordid round of daily life is ever present in each strife. 
What is crime in the poor is only eccentricity in the rich. 
Those who cease to think and work will soon cease to live. 
If censure is true we should reform ; if false it is harmless. 
'The ring of the rich resists the pleading power of the poor. 
Reason has ever a round-trip ticket on any train of thought. 
The brave man who knows how to die can never be a slave. 
He who permits a fault is as bad as he who commits one. 
Humility with a dagger up its sleeve is in a safe situation. 
Life is death and death is life, never ending joy and strife. 
Praying for fortune is not half as effective as working for it. 
Never a night without a day and every mortal sad or gay. 
The universal rolling air is all the soul that's here or there ! 
Do not forget that we were all boys and girls at one time. 
The man with the idea is greater than the man with the hoe. 
It is far better to believe in your abiHty than to doubt it. 
It is better to be lame in body than in mind and morality. 
A just critic is far more valuable to us than a friendly one. 



56 TRUTH 

When worried and tired we want a sofa and a true friend. 
The eye of the master is an extra hand to the laborer. 
The laws of nature are more potent than the laws of man. 
The brain of a lazy person is the workshop of the devil. 
He who dances to every man's tune has none of his own. 
This earth is but a wayside inn on our journey to eternity. 
The best way to beat calumny is to ignore and despise it. 
He who has more money than wit will not have it long. 
The world is ever indebted to a generous man and a genius. 
Preaching a virtuous life is not half as good as living it. 
Every sunset is a dark shadow on the coffin lid of hope. 
Do not let the habit of taking a back seat become chronic. 
The pains we plant for others will fruit in our own fields. 
No one is finally disgraced by the word and act of another. 
You can lock out a thief, but cannot shut out a liar. 



SECTION TWO 

What we do not know of the har and hater will not annoy 
us. 

Suspicion and persecution are the poison weeds of coward- 
ice. 

The performance of daily duty generates continuous pleas- 
ure. 

The soul within this hut of care is nothing but the ambient 
air. 

The good that palpitates within will ever conquer sordid 
sin. 

He who has poetry in his soul has sugar in his sentimental 
tea. 

Never hypothecate gilt-edged bonds for pot-metal prom- 
ises. 

Man, the greatest of cannibals, is continually eating him- 
self. 

Every intelligent laborer should receive five dollars per 
day. 

The religious missionary is the vidette of greed, gold and 
war. 

Imported cheap labor is the dearest and worst in the long 
run. 

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58 TRUTH 

Were equal justice dealt to all no mortal could escape a 
fall. 

Somebody or something is working for or against us every 
day. 

The man of wisdom is seldom flattered by those who know 
him. 

The Ins and the Outs of this world are continually equal- 
ized. 

Race and religion and capital and labor are constantly at 
war. 

Envy, greed and ambition are the plodding pioneers of 
war. 

Happy is the blooming bride with love and riches by her 
side. 

Love, liberty and law are the lingering beams of civiliza- 
tion. 

The insane effervescence of passion is a passport to perdi- 
tion. 

Those who steal, stab their soul with a stiletto of destruc- 
tion. 

The poor find little comfort in the riches of proud neigh- 
bors. 

Public opinion is the marching vidette of continual revolu- 
tion. 

The wisest man may often learn lessons of fortune from a 
fool. 

Crime is the thistle and weevil in the wheat field of the 
soul. 



TRUTH 59 

Every triumph of virtue over vice strengthens the lofty 
soul. 

Rejoice for what you have and grieve not for what you 
miss. 

A lie is helped by the truth, but truth is never helped by 
a lie. 

Moral courage is the sentinel at the headquarters of the 
soul. 

Envy, jealousy, malice and hate are hatched in the same 
nest. 

Back number poets and philosophers are front numbers 
now. 

The patriotic songs of a nation echo its glory down the 
ages. 

Trying and failing is only a new incentive to the brave 
man. 

A noble nature will defy and suppress bigotry and fanati- 
cism. 

The truly wise and shrewd. man will not seem to be too 
wise. 

All happiness from pole to pole is from the virtue of the 
soul. 

A beautiful woman and a back 'door are dangerous neigh- 
bors. 

Spare us from the obsequious, the flatterer and friendly 
bore. 

A grain of rice is more to a starving man than a grain of 
gold. 



60 TRUTH 

A tyrant in the home and state should be cut off by honest 
fate. 

The good we do from day to day will brighten our celestial 
way. 

Loving, truthful, glorious man is built upon the God-like 
plan. 

Those who provide for the worst will enjoy some of the 
best. 

In God and gold we surely trust, the helpers of all human 
dust. 

The silent zero atmosphere with deadly chill brings in the 
year. 

Pain and pleasure, right and wrong are but a discordant 
song. 

Poets are responsible for the manufacture of mythical 
gods. 

Pounds, pleasure and praise are the chief desires of man- 
kind. 

Loyalty and love are the guardian angels of every house- 
hold. 

Policy and cowardice are moving main springs of man- 
kind. 

The assault of the highway automobile deserves a dose of 
lead! 

Voice and ink have been the greatest educators of man- 
kind. 

Thought, word and action should ripen into the fairest 
fruit 



TRUTH 61 

A brilliant man in any state inspires the fiend of envious 
hate. 

Announcement of your failure will fly faster than your 
fame. 

When the physical appetite is a glutton, the mental is a 
slave. 

Two or twenty block heads are not better than one brain 
head. 

The wise and generous man may rest easy in doing daily 
good. 

A man of character and honor will never commit a bad 
deed. 

One criminal act destroys the good reputation of a life 
time. 

The conquered are considered wrong and the victorious 
right. 

Merchants are the matchless and moving monarchs of the 
state. 

Nothing is evil or good unless a person thinks and feels 
it so. 

What a little creature of a little hour is even the greatest 
man! 

How the little fellows chuckle at the down-fall of a great 
man! 

Be foxy with a foxy man and silent in the presence of the 
wise. 

Nations are but specks of dust on the whirling wheels of 
time. 



62 TRUTH 

The flitting changes of the mind are fickle as the vagrant 
wind. 

The boasting companions of truth often stab her in the 
back. 

Truth is ever bad or good, evolved from human brother- 
hood. 

Beautiful, religious and social hypocrisy are common as 
grass. 

Continual giving and no receiving ends in final estrange- 
ment. 

The crafty cuckoo is the "mutual friend" of the feathered 
tribe. 

Insidious social bribery is as common and universal as 
grass. 

Regret and remorse are wretched guests at the breakfast 
table. 

Envy and avarice are deformed sisters of scandal and 
greed. 

The poison of pelf and hypocrisy destroys the human 
heart. 

We commit mistakes with more rapidity than we correct 
them. 

Boast not of your wealth to-day; to-morrow it is swept 
away. 

Money is the most magnificent minister marching on the 
globe. 

Fire is no respecter of persons or things, consuming all 
alike. 



TRUTH 63 

In contemplating good we find the greatest pleasure of the 
mind. 

Concealed robbery and murder are the twin jailers of the 
mind. 

The modest wise are the most triumphant in their silent 
work. 

Many people in trying to do too much accomplish very 
little. 

Facility and perfection come by constant thought and 
labor. 

It is ever right to kill a cruel tyrant in any way, time or 
place. 

A neighbor who carries scandal to you will take a load 
away. 

Every moment, hour and day we change and quickly pass 
away. 

Brothers of bullion are far more friendly than brothers of 
blood. 

Capital is the very first essential to the employment of 
labor. 

Money won by marriage melts away like the dew of the 
dawn. 

Failure to the brave man is only an incentive to greater 
effort. 

The earth is frozen, even in summer, to the lazy human 
swine. 

Personal and public events in the long run must turn out 
justly. 



64 TRUTH 

Secret cares and crimes are the twin jailers of the tortured 
mind. 

Crime may prosper for a time, but Fate detects its poison 
sUme. 

My liberty to act and think cannot be curbed by what I 
drink. 

Work and sport are side by side, like a faithful groom and 
bride. 

Jealousy is a plant of slow growth in a brave and noble 
mind. 

To live for one's country is more cheering than to die 
for it. 

Angels of the mind are the beautiful thoughts we feel and 
utter. 

Official friendship lives and dies with the tenure of the 
office. 

Life at best is only an intricate jumble of impulsive inci- 
dents. 

The hair trigger of thought fires faster than that of a 
pistol. 

The good and true man can ever laugh at censure and 
abuse. 

Children may be bent like weeds and trained to do honest 
deeds. 

The greater the liar, robber and killer, the greater the 
crime. 

The sense of duty, like our shadow, clings to us to the 
grave. 



TRUTH 65 

All administrations have as many friends as there are 
offices. 

The poet is the promoter of principle and puncher of 
policy. 

No one is independent who is forced to work for daily 
wages. 

Fill your enemy with envy and contemplate his punish- 
ment. 

Eloquent thoughts and words are winged for immortal 
flight. 

Be strong in soul, in body, in truth and in gold, and fear 
no ill. 

To be found out is the crime, and- poverty is the jealous 
jailer. 

Occultism is the imagination of knowledge you do not 
know. 

When mind and body disagree there is no earthly har- 
mony. 

When the automobiles run over embankments the people 
laugh. 

Intemperance is the father and mother of disease and 
crime. 

The soul power of the human race fills all the universe of 
space. 

The joyous man on land or foam is he who claims a happy 
home. 

The chicken soon becomes the inside companion of the 
hawk. 



66 TRUTH 

Sacerdotal wind instruments are the non -producers of the 
world. 

There is a rock and a hole in the political road for rough 
riders. 

Doing one thing well is better than doing many things 
badly. 

How many secret scoundrels are garbed in purple and fine 
linen ! 

The United States is the largest Trust Company in the 
world. 

There are more butchers of language than butchers of 
lambs. 

We soon agree to wear a collar if it is buttoned with a 
dollar. 

Eloquent words without deeds are like withered wayside 
weeds. 

The cleanliness of mind is displayed in the outward gar- 
ments. 

The very poor must be happy, as they expect nothing 
worse. 

In the long run the fraud and thief get the hot end of the 
poker. 

Reformation without equity is like a household without 
virtue. 

Wishes and work are not on speaking terms with some 
people. 

Taft is the brilliant exemplification of truth, love and 
justice. 



TRUTH 67 

Tyranny and cruel laws generate poverty, famine and 
death. 

Burning soul and conscience is worse than burning your 
house. 

Supreme egotism is the first step to tyranny and leads to 
death. 

The dreamer is the earliest pioneer of progress and pros- 
perity. 

The secret injury we inflict on another rebounds on our- 
selves. 

A philosopher in a cabin is mightier than a monarch in a 
castle. 

God and Nature are just the same, a grand ideal and a 
name. 

When mind and body try to outdo nature, failure is the 
result. 

The best Keely cure for intemperance of any kind is will 
power. 

The unwilling hand and heart hews on the log house of 
failure. 

An illiterate man is often wise while an educated man is 
foolish. 

Character is what we are, reputation is what they say 
we are. 

He who is filled with spleen and greed is very miserable 
indeed. 

Though washed and painted every day, the crow is still 
a crow. 



68 TRUTH 

He spurns the bribe with his Hps and takes it with his 
hands. 

He who is above contempt is not below the notice of 
virtue. 

When bad people speak good of us, there is doubt of our 
virtue. 

There can be no lasting agreement between right and 
wrong. 

The oldest and dullest breast may wear the brightest 
jewels. 

Death quickly transmits our riches and reputation to 
others. 

Our enemies are often our best friends by telling us of our 
faults. 

The great commander never blames another for battle 
defeat. 

No living animal can hide from the hounding hunter 
Death. 

The wicked are constantly punished by soul-prods of re- 
morse. 

A man who cannot manage himself cannot command 
others. 

Cords of silk and fetters of gold are galling to the proud 
person. 

Temper the tongue, lash lust, bridle the belly and be 
happy. 

He who will not master himself must be mastered by 
others. 



TRUTH 69 

Creeds and crowns are surely crumbling before the rule of 
reason. 

A crazy mind is the culminating conflict of nature with 
reason. 

Eloquent and short discourse is ever valued in social 
circles. 

Push and persistence puts the people on the plain of pros- 
perity. 

The trusts and the courts keep the Republican party in 
power. 

He who conquers a bad habit is a victorious general of 
virtue. 

The tyrant mind for power or cash is destined to eternal 
smash. 

The apple butter of truth is better than the vinegar of 
virtue. 

The cat, fox, wolf, tiger, lion and snake murder for their 
meals. 

The devotion of a dog puts to shame the false devotion of 
a man. 

Cash customers find no trouble in purchasing religious 
favors. 

When we cease to think good and do good we should cease 
to live. 

Friendship purchased by pounds is sold for tlie same 
reason. 

Cowards die every moment, fearing an enemy with every 
breath. 



70 TRUTH 

Say and do what you mean and give the other talker a 
chance. 

Critics and cormorants feed on the fallen and fly from the 
strong. 

How often we rouse the hare for the shot of the other 
hunter. 

He who does not flatter or borrow is an independent 
citizen. 

A brave and honorable soldier has never been a voluntary 
robber. 

The preacher and politician perambulate for pence and 
pounds. 

The older brother often carried the younger brother in his 
pocket. 

A ten-dollar bill to the afflicted is better than a ton of 
advice. 

'Tis better to die on land or wave than live a moment as 
a slave. 

Every effort for the good and true will make a hero out 
of you. 

The man with a boil of grievance is a bore to his best 
friends. 

He who attempts to disfranchise his neighbors is a selfish 
tyrant. 

A wild, runaway horse is as bad as a madman without 
reason. 

The anarchy of law is more disastrous than the anarchy of 
liberty. 



TRUTH 71 

The brain and the belly are the leaders of happiness or 
misery. 

The lofty man and oak are ever exposed to the worst 
storms. 

The philosopher who can bridle his thought will not need 
a spur. 

The mind of the man is shown in the mansion and the 
manor. 

Be gentle with inferiors and you show your superior 
nature. 

Continuing in an unprofitable business will work final 
failure. 

Indifference and carelessness are the advance fools of 
failure. 

Lean meat makes thin broth, as cunning words make false 
friends. 

A sound spirit and stomach are our greatest earthly 
friends. 

Wisdom, wit and work will waft you on the wings of 
victory. 

Good counsel and example are stairs to the upper story of 
success. 

The son or daughter who hate their parents will be hated 
in time. 

It is as hard to make a friend of envy as to twist a rope 
of sand. 

The air and sun are the soul of the smallest bud or blade 
of grass. 



72 TRUTH 

Slander dare not enter the door of a good and honest 
person . 

Truth is truth in hfe or death, supreme unto our latest 
breath. 

The heretic philosopher is ever the superior of the orthodox 
tyrant. 

The sunshine of love is ever more powerful than the snows 
of hate. 

A year of glorious manhood is worth a century of decrepit 
old age. 

A tight cask and silent man hold wine and confidence the 
longest. 

Clothes make the outward man, but conscience makes the 
inward. 

Connnon sense is the green grass of longevity and lingering 
wealth. 

Gold is the father and mother of innumerable crimes and 
virtues. 

Vultures are ever ready to pounce on the carcass of mis- 
fortune. 

Fortitude and faith in the shadow of defeat is partial 
victory. 

Abridging the right to vote is shackling the limbs of 
liberty. 

The censure phrase of a philosopher stabs deeper than a 
dagger. 

The bankruptcy of mind is worse than the bankruptcy of 
money. 



TRUTH 73 

Wit and humor are the electric candles of banquets and 
beauty. 

Quick wit and good nature outrun wisdom in parlor 
society. 

The battleships of a nation are the vidcttes of its per- 
petuity. 

Coin thoughts from the mint of mind circulate and wear 
forever. 

Wisdom and wealth are great, but charity and mercy are 
greater. 

The lazy man has great admiration for the industrious 
worker. 

He who cannot resist generosity or severity is a slave of 
passion. 

The pohtical press bureau has killed many a politician it 
favored. 

The promises of tyrants are dead sea fruit on the branches 
of hope. 

The spirit and sense of justice are greater than any worldly 
fortune. 

When you have no character or collateral the banks have 
no cash. 

Short and decisive talk to a business man will win his 
respect. 

A man, like a ship, sinks when he carries more sail than 
ballast. 

When the §word is greater than the law tyranny and blood 
prevail, 



74 TRUTH 

Trying to say and do better things will meet with final 
success. 

Eminence is the "bull's eye" for the shafts of envy and 
censure. 

Those who will not face danger at once do not deserve 
victory. 

Those who accept charity wield a link in the chain of 
slavery. 

Impulse, egotism and cruelty are the triple traits of 
tyrants. 

Your cash purchase, though dear, is much cheaper than a 
present. 

Bullion without brain is soon conquered by brain without 
bullion. 

Personal jealousy and hypocrisy appear in high official 
station. 

Greed, ambition and corruption destroy individuals and 
nations. 

Intemperance, poverty and necessity have made many 
thieves. 

Impatience and self-sufficiency are stumbling blocks to 
success. 

The sunbeam of truth is never tarnished by the dark dust 
of a lie. 

An ignoramus in youth will be a dotard and pauper in 
old age. 

Good luck and mild temper are largely of our own pro- 
duction. 



TRUTH 75 

The roses of June have departed and nature is half broken 
hearted. 

A vacillating, trimming, uncertain man seldom makes a 
success. 

The man behind the law is greater than the man behind 
the gun. 

Drink and food have great influence on our health and 
conduct. 

Immediate and desperate danger is the best test of true 
courage. 

The splendid ceilings of the great do not remove the cares 
of state. 

Every one is as selfish as sunshine absorbing everything 
in reach. 

The politician who is constantly declining an office secretly 
wants it. 

Man is a mass of microbes meandering to mysterious 
oblivion. 

When your money and pluck have departed your friends 
are few. 

The policeman on the beat of conscience often sleeps on 
his post. 

Many people give a sausage of hypocrisy to secure a ham 
of truth. 

He who can endure every vicissitude robs misfortune of 
its sting. 

Custom is the tyrant of the ignorant and the deceiver of 
the wise. 



76 TRUTH 

Common sense and education are unconquerable compan- 
ions. 

Grace, gentility and generosity germinate gentlemen and 
ladies. 

A good, intelligent private citizen makes the best public 
officer. 

Death, in some mysterious shape, allows no mortal to 
escape. 

When the people are not trusted plutocracy and tyranny 
prevail. 

Covetousness and greed are cancers of continuous con- 
tention. 

Radical earnestness is the Adjutant General of labor and 
victory. 

Right and wrong are ever warring, and the soul and body 
scarring. 

The weak and cunning resort to fraud to accomplish their 
purpose. 

The anarchy of liberty is better than the anarchy of 
tyranny. 

The world may bury my body, but cannot bury my wisdom 
thought. 

The friendship of some notorious characters is fatal to the 
receiver. 

The castles we build in the air are greater than rocks rich 
and rare. 

Conscript soldiers secretly kill the cause they are forced to 
fight for. 



TRUTH 77 

A stab with the tongue is often more fatal than that of a 
stiletto. 

The last lick and bullet in a fight are the elements of sure 
victory. 

Mental and physical bravery are your best friends in 
trouble. 

The advocates of reform often deform what they would 
correct. 

Individuals and nations often flatter only to betray and 
destroy. 

Mendicant Monks who constantly beg are no use to God 
or man. 

The robber-trust barons must be shot out of their tyrant 
saddles. 

The heritage of good brain, body and name is the best 
fortune. 

Wealth, egotism and old age are open to the wiles of 
flattery. 

A vast man is created every thousand years to build and 
destroy. 

From the ruins of antiquity we learn how to build modern 
temples. 

There are more people intoxicated with whiskey than 
thought. 

When political gifts are exhausted political friendship 
departs. 

Eating little and talking less will keep you from all sad 
distress. 



78 TRUTH 

Truth needs not for its preservation the salt or sugar of 
flattery. 

The devious demagogue is the deceitful destroyer of his 
country. 

A pioneer of principle is persecuted in life and monumented 
in death. 

Delicacy, decency and virtue are delicious dishes of con- 
solation. 

The circumambient universe is all wisdom, intellect and 
eternity. 

Pretending to be what you are not will soon reveal what 
you are. 

The bigot shall not crush my will, so long as I can fight 
and kill. 

Silent and sincere gratitude is ever the best evidence of 
a friend. 

The silent frost with mystic hand shackles the rivers and 
the land. 

My words my monument shall be when death displays 
eternity. 

He who intelligently trusts God and himself makes no 
mistake. 

Successful age brushes out of sight spleen, suspicion and 
remorse. 

Discretion is bravery and desperation is the brother of 
insanity. 

The poets of all climes and sods have manufactured all 
the gods. 



TRUTH 79 

The memory of bad deeds of the past is a secret curse to 
the soul. 

Courts are dark pits for the poor and shining peaks for 
the rich. 

The Czar of Russia is the royal cancer in the body of 
nations. 

To ignore or strike first a bad enemy is the best step to 
victory. 

Those who quarrel with their bread and butter will go 
hungry. 

Duplicity and diplomacy are pleasant vices in imitation 
of truth. 

Placing persons in your unpayable debt makes them 
enemies. 

Passion continually propagates and destroys its own 
children. 

Prophets of evil are boomeranged by their polluting pre- 
dictions. 

Government ownership of railroads will end in political 
tyranny. 

Greatness depends upon excellence of knowledge and 
conduct. 

Soul faith and constant work will surmount every earthly 
obstacle. 

There is no truth or happiness in the bottom of a morning 
cocktail. 

Many men do wrong by design who never do right by even 
mistake. 



80 TRUTH 

The brave, moral, courageous man is built upon the God- 
like plan. 

Though a man be wise, his poverty will only yield him 
dishonor. 

The common, personal and political scold is a common 
nuisance. 

Predicting victory for a friend or cause is a good way to 
assure it. 

Curiosity has often destroyed the earthly peace of husband 
and wife. 

The good man ever merits praise as truth and love fill all 
his days. 

The brave little flea may eat a meal from the leg of a lion 
or giant. 

The greatest traveler has never circled the boundary of 
the soul. 

God is directly responsible for all the good and evil in the 
universe ! 

The true philosopher has not a particle of policy in his 
principle. 

We see the body soon decay, but what of mind that leaves 
this clay.'' 

It is a mean Congress that does not increase the salaries 
of clerks. 

A pointed paragraph of principle is preferable to a page 
of policy. 

When the pot and the kettle quarrel, the "black hand" 
is visible. 



TRUTH 81 

Sweet hope is ever on the wing and Hfts the peasant to 
be king. 

A good and true friend will defend your name in absent 
moments. 

Associating with a liar and a coward will bring you to 
perdition. 

We may meet death with courage, but cannot ignore or 
despise it. 

Great and strong is the character in league with grim 
necessity. 

Wisdom, like the ground worm or coral insect, moves 
anything. 

We are never alone when in the company of virtuous 
thoughts. 

In all animated nature man is the royal robber and 
murderer. 

Robbing according to law is the scheme of modern busi- 
ness men. 

The guest who neglects to tip the waiter will find himself 
neglected. 

In convincing a man or splitting a log do not run against 
the grain. 

The union or disunion of labor and capital brings success 
or failure. 

Greed, ambition or religion have caused all the wars of 
the world. 

Your asseveration and talk will not help to get you em- 
ployment. 



82 TRUTH 

Every public administration has its patriots, pets and 
puppets. 

Poets and philosophers are the pioneers and patriots of 
progress. 

Cracked crocks and characters can never be perfectly 
mended. 

Speak and act your soul sentiment if the devil stands at 
the door. 

Live as we may by cash or trust, whether good or bad, die 
we must. 

He who is able to defy fashion is the king of his own 
opinions. 

Greatness of character is ever allied to humility of heart 
and soul. 

Dexterity and perfection are the result of practical ex- 
perience. 

The sanctuary of soul prayer is the audience chamber of 
Jehovah. 

Genius and hard work are constant and inseparable 
partners. 

A bad mind, word and deed are the cutting cancers of 
the soul. 

The ghost of some dear dead friend inspires the secrets of 
the soul. 

The law's delay is the most potent to prevent punishment 
of crime. 

Character is the granite corner stone of every great human 
building. 



TRUTH 83 

Railroad traveling acquaintances may ripen into friendship 
or fraud. 

A secret word against a friend often breaks the love of a 
life time. 

Population and credit thrive on the ratio of their intrinsic 
morality. 

The thought incubator produces many dolly-varden 
chickens. 

A flirt is her own flatterer, and by trying to allure misses 
to secure. 

Indigestion of victuals and ideals produce painful con- 
stipation. 

He who is a glutton for praise will be a gudgeon for secret 
laughter. 

Men and nations win by love and virtue, and lose by hate 
and vice. 

The soul of the individual is a part of the soul of the 
universe. 

The "scape goat" in this world may be the great goat in 
the next. 

He who coins a new and lofty thought is a benefactor of 
his race. 

The greatest man in field or wood is he who does the great- 
est good. 

The sunshine of generosity melts the snow fields of guilty 
iniquity. 

There is ever a bullet and bomb in the ore for the body of 
a tyrant. 



84 TRUTH 

No tyrant can reign long where liberty is armed with light 
and lead. 

Be careful in treading on the sore toe or thought of your 
neighbor. 

The wise, the strong and the brave rule o'er the land and 
the wave. 

The Fourth of July is the annual milestone of the American 
Republic. 

The life of one man has changed the destiny of millions 
of people. 

Like restless children at their play we fret or laugh our 
little day. 

Trouble will not worry you long if you face and fight it 
instanter. 

Scars on the soul are more deep and deadly than those on 
the body. 

Secret chicanery and cunning crime culminate in future 
exposure. 

Some men are born to rule with love and justice or hate 
and ruin. 

A hungry fish or man bite at any bait and are caught by 
curiosity. 

A great man can rise above himself and forgive and forget 
an injury. 

He who denies committing a bad deed adds falsehood to 
his crime. 

Gentlemen and ladies are mild and polite to the weak 
and poor. 



TRUTH 85 

The air battleships will make all the ocean war vessels 
obsolete. 

Speech is a two-edged sword, often cutting the man who 
wields it. 

The ulcers of the mind are more incurable than those of 
the body. 

The slavery of creeds are but the fanatical habits of 
centuries. 

Constant political praise is a dangerous symptom of de- 
struction. 

The editorial "We" is ever egotistical, impudent and 
arrogant. 

Tyrants are the poison products of poverty, ignorance 
and fear. 

Many a genius banquets on the atmosphere of empty 
applause. 

The generous heart and soul are the richest earthly 
blessings. 

We alternately hate and love those who have injured or 
served us. 

Mankind today is just the same in all his greed for wealth 
and fame. 

The mistakes and misfortunes of another will never correct 
your own. 

Cheating the cheater is a satisfaction even to an honest 
character. 

Discernment, prudence and energy build the greatest 
structures. 



86 TRUTH 

Courtesy is the perfumed bouquet of consideration and 
gentility. 

Altruistic tariff legislation for colonial dependencies is all 
they get. 

A man can make a fool of himself without the least pro- 
vocation. 

Constant reiteration of a brilliant lie will make it look like 
the truth. 

Public opinion and the wind are variable sisters of un- 
certainty. 

In all animated nature man is the monumental robber and 
murderer. 

Every one should carry a night key to the door of devotion 
and duty. 

A man may be first among his equals but last among his 
superiors. 

The melancholy man is happy in attending the funeral of 
his hopes. 

A glorious, patriotic lie serves about the same purpose as 
the truth. 

In sifting the cinders of the past we get more clinkers 
than coal. 

The traitor and the tyrant are tarantellas and tigers of 
humanity. 

The British government is the most refined tyranny on 
the globe. 

The aroma of truth ever rises over the canker worm of 
falsehood 



TRUTH 87 

Future danger may be avoided by present provisions 
against it. 

Laughter, love and liberty are the lingering lights of 
humanity. 

The dynamite of ideals blasts the strongest quarry of 
ignorance. 

You will make few mistakes when your teeth and pocket 
are closed. 

Old Mother Earth is the salt, sugar and bread-bowl for 
humanity. 

Nature has no profit and loss account; everything goes 
and stays. 

Virtue and vice constantly mingle in the melting pot of 
humanity. 

Labor and Capital are the Siamese twins of progress and 
prosperity. 

A night of direst defeat is often followed by the sunrise 
of victory. 

There is no human being that is not a slave to some thing 
or person. 

He who kills another in a fit of passion kills his own 
happiness. 

Man is but the creature of a day who struts and frets and 
flits away. 

The secret of happiness and success is constant remunera- 
tive work. 

Our destiny we can't avoid, and what is made nmst be 
destroyed. 



88 TRUTH 

The snow-ball rollers in the park are laughing school boys 
on a lark. 

Those who die for love are not brave enough to live and 
toil for it. 

Thought is the seed of action and wise action is the fruit 
of victory. 

Systematic advertising is the secret of many a successful 
politician. 

A quick, impulsive, snappy man is at heart a generous 
character. 

It is foolish to be troubled in spirit, words or body about 
future ills. 

You can conceal a thousand dollars, but not a hole in 
your coat. 

We remember injuries with malice and kindness with in- 
difference. 

Lofty and noble characters never indulge in the vice of 
vulgarity. 

Greed and graft and want and hate are rotten pillars of 
the state. 

The mind a heaven or hell can make a saint or devil at 
the stake. 

By generously helping others we are planting seeds for our 
own fruit. 

Many a man has become accidentally great and little by 
false report. 

The sale of words and watermelons have their good and 
bad seasons. 



TRUTH 89 

Those who are prepared for disappointment will not be 
aggrieved. 

The edged tool of thought cuts the ideal in the seal of 
character. 

The sneaking, suspicious and restless man is a daily hell 
to himself. 

Time plays on the harp strings of the heart with celestial 
vibrations. 

Monopoly of land, trade and gold are the dire destroyers 
of nations. 

The optimist and pessimist change places with the change 
of fortune. 

England and Ireland maintain the friendship of the wolf 
and lamb. 

Silent contempt is more deadly to a fraud than open 
vengeance. 

Great is the man who knows how to grow old without 
grumbling. 

Wheat without chaff and character without blemish is 
never seen. 

Youth, health, wealth and ability are a quartette of 
conquerors. 

Suspicion, prejudice and hate are cunning and cruel 
counsellors. 

Genius forces recognition even from the deepest pits 
of poverty. 

Audacity and desperation often win where reason and 
caution fail. 



90 TRUTH 

Self-reliance and self-sacrifice are self-helping agents of 
happiness. 

Virtue shines in immortal green while vice and faults are 
daily seen. 

Gay life and death walk side by side as faithful as a groom 
and bride. 

Those who trust in good work and gold will have God on 
their side. 

Dishonesty is the most expensive element in human 
character. 

No one can be true to the negative and positive at the 
same time. 

Blessed is the man who can go to his daily work as a 
recreation. 

Curiosity between husband and wife makes future life 
miserable. 

The despotism of freedom is often worse than the tyranny 
of slavery. 

Individual selfishness is the real basis of progress and 
prosperity. 

The intense and radical individual for truth is long re- 
membered. 

Conscience, courage and concentrated action culminate 
in victory. 

Daily business discontent is an incentive to progress and 
prosperity. 

It is better to wear a thread-bare coat than a thread-bare 
conscience. 



TRUTH 91 

The paradise of blooming youth is lost in the fading glory 
of old age. 

Why does not God create a new human being without 
ancestors? 

Only the wise minority of mankind can appreciate lofty 
literature. 

Brains, beauty, bullion and brevity are matchless cards 
of success. 

The man succeeds from floor to shelf who believes intensely 
in himself. 

Brain, blood and impulse are the erratic products of 
humanity. 

Envy, jealousy, malice and hate are continuous hounds 
of hunger. 

Wishing and weeping are poor pleaders for work and 
prosperity. 

Never hear the working whistle of the factory outside the 
front door. 

Incessantly predicting prosperity is a great means for its 
realization. 

Old creeds are crumbling to decay and like the mist must 
melt away. 

It is easier for some people to lie than to blow dust off a 
dictionary. 

Dear friends we love from day to day are skipping to the 
silent clay. 

Religious and political tyranny have destroyed the liberty 
of Ireland. 



92 TRUTH 

There can be no real virtue or happiness without a clear 
conscience. 

When pubHc measures mingle into men, men melt into 
monarchy. 

Wanting, working and saving are three grand milestones 
to fortune. 

The industrious and intelligent man is seldom out of a 
paying job. 

The greatest love and fairest beauty are found in doing 
daily duty. 

The lesson of defeat is the dearest and best in the school 
of wisdom. 

Pork, potatoes, pie and platitudes make a good meal foi 
politicians. 

Hope is the hallucination of having a thing not in your 
possession. 

To steal your gold is mean, but to steal your thought is 
monstrous. 

Sentiment is the cimeter that cuts the gordian knot of 
difficulties. 

We still inhale with every breath the flying germs of pain 
and death. 

Constant advertising is the pushing plough of political 
prosperity. 

Happiness is daily found in love, work, faith, generosity 
and honor. 

The least said about any of your failures is best for future 
prosperity. 



TRUTH 93 

Adversity is the cold iron stairway to the lofty peaks of 
prosperity. 

Nature is the greatest continuous tyrant and conquers all 
opposition. 

Pork and potatoes for the poor are better than pungent 
platitudes. 

Death lurks in every living thing from beastly blood to 
royal king. 

Sharp words cut deeper and last longer than the wounds 
of a sword. 

The air we breathe from pole to pole is nothing but the 
living soul. 

Squalor, poverty, crime and ignorance are a quartette of 
corruption. 

Bandits for liberty are braver and better than tyrants 
for slavery. 

He who is honestly indebted to another is a secret slave 
of remorse. 

The Irishman leaps, the Englishman reaps and the Scotch- 
man keeps. 

Proverbs are the punctuation points of passionate 
philosophy. 

Work is the only thing that keeps the world from deadly 
stagnation. 

Fiddlers and fifers of fortune are ever acquainted with 
misfortune. 

A true patriot uses all power for his country and a poltroon 
for himself. 



94 TRUTH 

It is easy to keep the castle of virtue that was never 
assaulted. 

The tyrant stride of wealth and power may kill a nation 
any hour. 

Man has not yet learned the alphabet in the deep volume 
of nature. 

No mortal on the land or wave can answer what's beyond 
the grave. 

Slavery in any form is the rotten apple in the barrel of 
humanity. 

A brilliant thought beneath the sky shall never wither, 
fade or die. 

Secretly sighing for "what might have been" is a foolish 
occupation. 

The God-given glory within us is our greatest support in 
misfortune. 

Diffidence and prudence are poor promoters of patriotism 
and power. 

Longing for what you cannot get is waste of thought and 
foolish fret. 

Action and good result are ever rewarded by business 
proprietors. 

Passionate people and hot stoves are to be avoided most 
of the year. 

We cannot catch turkeys or trout without hunting forest 
and stream. 

The wise man makes opportunity and takes advantage 
of his work. 



TRUTH 95 

Those who profit by crime are as guilty as those who 
commit it. 

Those who assert that man was ever a God have never 
proved it ! 

The man with riches, power and friends is the man who 
gets more. 

A great and good man never violates the laws of nature 
or society. 

He who cheats and fools himself is the victim of an ig- 
norant ass. 

When mind and body pull apart there is no pleasure in 
the heart. 

A deliberate criminal act can never be erased from the 
conscience. 

The emblems of present poverty are the remains of past 
prospertiy. 

Communism is the bastard child of anarchy and ends in 
barbarism. 

The fawning subordinate of a tyrant is more cruel than 
his master. 

Care is drowned in the wine cup, but leaves dark dregs 
of remorse. 

My songs and sayings when I'm gone shall echo sweetly 
one by one. 

Genius is ever envied by those who cannot follow its 
lofty flight. 

Every hour and day presents a new opportunity to a 
brave man. 



96 TRUTH 

It is better to ask for something you want than want for 
something. 

Continuance of thought and labor will generate peace and 
prosperity. 

Nerve and impudence often outmatch modesty and 
knowledge. 

Idleness and intemperance to-day bring want and misery 
to-morrow. 

No material criticism curbs the true poet, philosopher or 
statesman. 

The public at last are nearly always right in their final 
judgment. 

The tricky, plotting politician is never bothered with 
contrition. 

If all women are flirts and all men are liars, what is love 
and truth? 

Direct action and talk are the true elements of a brave 
gentleman. 

Wealth and health will soon decay and earthly pleasures 
pass away. 

Greed for gold and land and power destroys the world 
every hour. 

In work we find the sweetest rest, as truth and love give 
us the best. 

It is as hard for some people to keep a secret as a sieve to 
hold water. 

Bravery and independence are the characteristics of a 
noble man. 



TRUTH 97 

Bigotry, poverty and whiskey continually slaughter the 
human race. 

Jughandle justice has been dealt to the Indian by the 
White man. 

Right and wrong are eternal enemies, antagonistic as the 
cat and rat. 

A hook baited with glittering gold catches any kind of 
human fish. 

The wise man lives according to nature and the virtue of 
doing good. 

The man who has no appreciation of himself cannot inspire 
it in others. 

A plentiful supply of bread, beef and brains cheapens the 
commodity. 

Each plant, poet and philosopher have their parasites of 
destruction. 

The love of gold and power is the first step to political 
destruction. 

The soul and heart filled with the fewest desires find the 
most peace. 

A dog never bites his master, leaving that to relatives 
and friends. 

No man has any respect for a robber, although he may be 
one himself. 

A clear countenance and sweet voice is a flower of name- 
less beauty. 

Tender heads and hearts are ill-fitted for the storms of 
rushing life. 



98 TRUTH 

Here today and away tomorrow fills up this world of joy 
and sorrow. 

Hypocrisy, cupidity and falsehood lead directly to secret' 
criminality. 

A smile on the lips and a dagger in the heart is the trend 
of a traitor. 

Man is a brute of brilliant sway ; kills and devours from 
day to day. 

The measure and the man are ever superior to the money 
of the man. 

How often as the years prolong we hear our mother's 
cradle song. 

Study in youth what you propose to live by in manhood 
and old age. 

Thousands of criminals live and die without exposure and 
punishment. 

The man who commits a crime is the executioner of his 
peace of life. 

We meet and love and part and die and know not of the 
reason why. 

A good, bright countenance is a letter of recommendation 
everywhere. 

Laugh, and the world laughs with you ; weep, and you 
weep alone. 

The fires on the altar of fame arise from the noble ashes 
of the dead. 

A foolish old man and silly young woman are ludicrous 
voke mates. 



.TRUTH 99 

The oily tongue of the hypocrite is poison to individuals 
and nations. 

He who has a "nose for news" must be a valuable hound 
of the press. 

Labor is the golden link in the glittering chain of fame 
and fortune. 

Better the freedom of the eagle than the slavery of fashion- 
able society. 

Grabbing and grasping with a greedy hand loses the bulk 
of the grain. 

Hope is the sunshine of the soul lighting up the declivities 
of difficulty. 

It would be a great gain if we could permanently lose our 
bad temper. 

Great and glorious is the man who can constantly control 
his passions. 

Truth, like a solid rubber ball, can stand all kicks in 
field or hall. 

The Auto has become the expert executioner of wealthy 
enthusiasts. 

Poverty and necessity are the hand cuffs and ankle chains 
of ignorance. 

Cheating, robbing, murdering man is built upon the 
devil's plan. 

When wisdom associates with wickedness, crime is the 
commander. 

Hot hell or heaven we can find by searching our own 
mystic mind. 



100 TRUTH 

Justice with truth is far more glorious than peace with 
humiliation. 

Praise and censure are often the hasty tributes of mis- 
information. 

He who kicks against the pricks of truth must pocket his 
punishment. 

Political Hars can never reach the sounding altitude of 
poetic lyres. 

Weakness makes us obstinate and timidity urges us to 
desperation. 

Patience is the slowest growing plant in the garden of 
expectation. 

People seek you for pleasure or profit and shun you for 
fear of pain. 

Age creeps on like the shades of night, blotting each mortal 
out of sight. 

The air we breathe from pole to pole is nothing but the 
soaring soul. 

The poor farmer is known by his rusty plows, pigs, hoes 
and harness. 

Imagination makes mountains of trouble out of mole hills 
of suspicion. 

The storms in the sea are not as fearful as those in the 
sinning soul. 

Honest praise for honest work will generate more and 
better work. 

After deceit and diplomacy come bullets and bayonets 
and victory. 



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102 TRUTH 

When we are dead and cannot feel, the world will love and 
lie and steal. 

Perfect perjury puts many a person in and out of the 
penitentiary. 

No person can be happy in mind or body who harbors a 
secret crime. 

Brain, bullion and industry displace ignorance, poverty 
and laziness. 

Worshiping God by proxy is like having another man eat 
your dinner. 

Do not let the "green bugs" of envy enter the wheat field 
of your soul. 

A happy heart and genial smile can all the world with 
love beguile. 

When money and morality meet in conflict, money wins — ■ 
temporarily. 

Constant asseveration of friendship leaves a doubt as to 
its sincerity. 

The habit of drinking intoxicating liquors is slow but 
sure suicide. 

Better be an expert cobbler of shoes than a poor cobbler 
of literature. 

The morality of philosophers is mightier than the money 
of monarchs. 

The love and work we show today shall triumph o'er our 
coffined clay. 

Time passes very slow and sorrowful to the lame, lying 
and the lazy. 



TRUTH 103 

Death is the only sure cure for heartless and unconscion- 
able tyrants. 

We grieve for a day over the loss of the great and soon 
forget them. 

The home life in the United States is becoming a flat 
arrangement. 

An inferior mind in power is a sad situation for superior 
subordinates. 

An honest opinion, though wrong, should be tolerated 
until righted. 

The crimes and wars we see today tortured the ages 
passed away. 

Good health and laughing cheer are faithful friends from 
year to year. 

Anarchy is the product of tyrant laws, and the rule of no 
rule is death. 

The loneliest mortal on earth is a man without a conscience 
or a country. 

Liberty is the lightning of free public opinion and shatters 
every tyrant. 

Though death be slow or death be fast let's laugh and love 
unto the last. 

Confidence cannot be bought, but like summer dew comes 
unpurchased. 

Ambition, like a voracious appetite, never finds enough 
to masticate. 

The Japanese may scold and sneeze, yet Uncle Sam may 
take his ease. 



104 TRUTH 

No human life, high or low, has a guarantee of an hour's 
continuance. 

Secret charity is the sweetest consolation to the giver 
and receiver. 

Clipping coupons and editorial paragraphs are pleasant 
amusements. 

The Auto race and the Auto smash have no respect for the 
man or cash. 

Too much sail and too little ballast sink the greatest 
human craft. 

Genius, like the force of a mountain flood, cuts out its 
own channel. 

The minority in the right will ever conquer the majority 
in the wrong. 

Rain, snow, ice and fire do not hinder the brave in being 
and building. 

The "Night Riders" of today will be on the Grand Jury 
of tomorrow ! 

An old man who has nothing to boast of but his years has 
lived in vain. 

The electric lights of nightly pleasure remain for all a joy 
and treasure. 

Look on the poor pale corpse of any man and then say 
who is great! 

Freedom has never turned its back to the future of liberty 
and progress. 

Tyrant popes, princes and presidents are the poison vines 
of humanity. 



TRUTH 105 

The luxury of honest love is greater than glittering gold 
or diamonds. 

Tomorrow will be the sport of fools and the wisdom of 
philosophers. 

Reminding a friend of your former gifts does not make 
him happier. 

Man has ever been the most desperate murdering beast 
on the globe. 

Near by plug prose writers are ever jealous of poetic 
philosophers. 

Money is the motive that propels priests, preachers, princes 
and patriots. 

Wind up the watch of your wit and it will not run down 
on your time. 

Do not measure your pint of honesty in the other man's 
peck measure. 

The soldier boys so bright and gay deserve much better 
pork and pay. 

Calumny is the crime of the coward and the poison wound 
of wickedness. 

The song and sigh of the soul are deeply implanted in 
poetic hearts. 

Proverbs are the brightest and sharpest arrows in the 
quiver of wit. 

Heaven and hell from day to day are with ourselves at 
work or play. 

To confess a bad habit and try to break it is the act of a 
brave person. 



106 TRUTH 

The coldest character, hke the flint, often holds the hottest 
spark of fire. 

Prayer from the Hps without work from the hands avail- 
eth nothing. 

Men of unequal brain, body and bullion never become 
true friends. 

A man with one radical opinion will not sit on two stools 
of argument. 

The fastest runner at the start is often the slowest runner 
at the finish. 

Golden opportunities grow on the highest trees of the 
highest hills. 

Many people bear good reputation because they are not 
truly known. 

The cold frost of impenetrable truth will ever kill a 
flowering lie. 

Hope will starve when fed on pity, but prospers on pork 
and potatoes. 

Why does God allow the devil to tempt weak man with 
blackest evil? 

No man is left upon the shelf, who bold and bravely 
helps himself. 

The living Homer starved for bread, and dying, glory 
came instead. 

A Washington Newspaper Club has been roasted on its 
own gridiron. 

In home or street in church or state, we can't escape the 
blows of fate. 



TRUTH 107 

A phrase of kindness or cruelty lasts longer than the person 
who utters it. 

The financial realizations of age are compensations for 
loss of youth. 

To be doing "well enough" is no reason that we should 
not do better. 

Profane and vulgar conversation is the evidence of a 
human brute. 

The Rake's progress leads to the perdition of the pauper 
and madman. 

Public administrations often become personal rings for 
personal gain. 

Daily drunkenness is slow suicide and a cowardly evasion 
of daily duty. 

Coal, coke and iron ore, steel their way into the utilities 
of prosperity. 

The boys and girls on roller skates are laughing at the 
grinning fates. 

My wisdom words on brilliant pages will thrill the hearts 
of future ages. 

Sighing for past opportunities is a poor way to find present 
or future ones. 

Veritas vinclt— truth conquers, is the greatest epigram 
of all the ages. 

The air we breathe is soul and life and thrills us in our 
joy and strife. 

Grains of thought ground into the flour of action make 
the loaf of life. 



108 TRUTH 

Those who speak and act too soon or too late are ever 
disappointed. 

The sun and air and rain and earth give force to every 
kind of birth. 

Legislative boot Ucking for Executive favor is humiUating 
Americanism. 

Blessings and curses given by man to man amount to so 
much hot air. 

When the wool-sack is greased with gold, justice glides 
off the bench. 

The world finally estimates a truthful man at his own 
measurement. 

The birth-right stamp of nature is the true passport to 
every success. 

Some wisdom epigrams make the reader jump as if he had 
sat on a tack. 

Golden-selfish interest makes the enemies of yesterday 
friends today. 

The dead leaves of November are the ghostly messengers 
of leafy June. 

A brilliant son and pupil are never envied by father or 
schoolmaster. 

Expecting to get what you do not deserve will prove 
disappointing. 

Present trouble to the wise is a great teacher against 
future failure. 

The character man, like the lion, is recognized instantly 
in an}' crowd. 



TRUTH 109 

No power was ever known to save a mortal from the 
gloomy grave. 

How much time could be saved if men would talk less 
and act more. 

Fashionable sociability quickly ceases when cash and 
health depart. 

The light from the lofty soul illuminates the darkest 
neighborhood. 

The constant repetition of a lie will induce you to believe 
it is the truth. 

A politician out of power is as helpless as a craw fish 
without a tail. 

The longest and greatest life is wrecked on the stormy 
shores of time. 

The grass grows as green o'er the conquered as where the 
victorious rest. 

The greedy man shall come to grief just like the prowling, 
sneaking thief. 

Your personal daily conduct is the best evidence of your 
soul character. 

Politeness is the polished pearl in the necklace of beauty 
and brilliancy. 

Read, study, ponder and digest the thoughts that seem 
to be the best. 

A multifarious man doing justice without prejudice is a 
rare character. 

Jealousy and envy pursue living merit and honor departed 
intellectuality. 



no TRUTH 

Compliments and flattery will be sweet sauce to the 
toughest meal. 

Money is the magic mallet that knocks off the pri7e in 
every contest. 

He who would have silver in his pocket must have silver 
on his tongue. 

A crooked stick and a crooked man are made in old Dame 
Nature's plan. 

Sound mind, body and money are the three great requisites 
for happiness. 

A simple and trusting man will not make a successful 
business man. 

Accepting something for nothing is the death of personal 
independence. 

National greed, envy, malice and hypocrisy have never 
been civilized. 

The habit of looking on the bright side of life will get 
what we seek. 

The pampered rich only envy the poor for their appetite 
and digestion. 

Will power alone conquers the gnawing desire for intoxi- 
cating liquors. 

Wine will banish care, for a short season, but gather more 
for a long one. 

The rebuke and enmity of some men is a great help to 
sterling virtue. 

The brave soldier who retreats over the hill will shoot 
from its crest. 



TRUTH 111 

Hit wrong on the raw side and conscience will grandly 
commend you. 

Energy, economy, patriotism and wisdom generate the 
best American. 

Executive greed and tyranny are the worst enemies of 
human liberty. 

A man of your own trade and profession will be your 
natural enemy. 

Authors, actors and politicians prosper by continuous 
advertisement. 

The stalled oxen in political power are only fattened for 
final slaughter. 

A multitude of men cannot rise higher or sink lower than 
the individual. 

Each little man has his little day and like morning mist 
he melts away. 

Ambition and power are the greediest gourmands of politi- 
cal peculation. 

Those who plant seed on stony ground should not expect 
a rich harvest. 

To hear, see and say nothing is to live in peaceful but 
silent slavery. 

On earth below or heaven above long absence conquers 
faith and love. 

Imagination cannot trace the date or clime of our indi- 
vidual parents. 

Study yourself from day to day and thus prolong your 
breathing clay. 



112 TRUTH 

Grieving for lost opportunity is the very worst way to 
find a new one. 

Speaking and doing good today is an assurance of happi- 
ness tomorrow. 

Selfish mental and physical interest is the ruling motive 
of all mankind. 

How beautiful and glorious are the productions of truth 
and innocence ! 

The embezzlement of power and pounds is practiced by 
pelf politicians. 

The appearance of truth counteracts all the good of the 
original article. 

Her willing footsteps ever near no more on earth shall 
thrill mine ear. 

The soul spirit of humanity is the light house of liberty 
and prosperity. 

Gods, angels, saints and devils are but the creation of 
poetic insanity. 

The principal should never do through an agent what he 
can do himself. 

The best cure for mind and body is strict temperance and 
Doctor Nature. 

Necessity and ambition are the great propellers of labor 
and prosperity. 

The credit of a lifetime may be lost in a moment and 
never regained. 

Clemency and mercy in a ruler are strong props of his 
administration. 



TRUTH 113 

The man who thinks, writes and prints real poetry is a 
rare individual. 

When mind and matter separate will my proud soul be 
saved by Fate? 

Industry, prudence and temperance will lift any person 
out of poverty. 

There is no drug or knife strong enough to remove the 
cancer of envy. 

Old Homer wrote immortal rhyme and Plato thought for 
truth and time. 

You will never know some men even if you eat a ton of 
salt with them. 

Men, monkeys, mice and midgets are made by the same 
Celestial Artist. 

A true, sensitive gentleman is very lonely in this jostling, 
rushing world. 

A discriminating, sound stomach is the greatest aid to a 
brilliant mind. 

Virtue is ever master of vice that dies with the cancer of 
its own nature. 

It is only a coward who asks another to do what he dares 
not do himself. 

How lonely, solitary and sad is the wisest soul In the 
crowded street. 

A javelin of thought will fly farther and deeper than a 
javelin of steel. 

The experience of another person is of little value to the 
actor of today. 



114 TRUTH 

Farewell, farewell, sweet fleeting breath ; I go to rest with 
glorious death. 

If political parties are as bad as represented the voters 
must be worse. 

Feast, drink and dance with your equals and sorrow will 
not linger long. 

Individual reciprocity of friendship is necessary to its 
continuous life. 

Temptation will teach you the true integrity of your own 
heart and soul. 

I believe in God from will and choice, and more than all in 
John A. Joyce. 

Intensity of truth and action is the volcanic flame of 
the real orator. 

The bray of an ass and voice of a fool cannot be changed 
by society rule. 

Building castles in the air is better than breaking hearts 
upon the earth. 

Secrecy, suspicion and envy eat out the hearts that 
entertain them. 

A cowardly legislative majority deserves defeat by the 
brave minority. 

Good for good and evil for evil is the practical philosophy 
of common life. 

Mind, money and manhood are rough ashlers in the tem- 
ple of masonry. 

Promoting the happiness of others is the best means to 
secure our own. 



TRUTH 115 

Firmness and intense concentration of mind cure the 
ills of the body. 

There are yet several "undesirable citizens" who have not 
been found out. 

All hens and cats are born to scratch, and poverty must 
pine and patch. 

The greatest, richest, brightest men are destined to the 
grave-yard den. 

Planting good words and acts produce a harv^est of finan- 
cial abundance. 

Weary and dependent are the feet that climb the stairs of 
another person. 

A barrel of whiskey contains a thousand crimes and a 
million of tears. 

A frown, grunt and kick are all that can be expected from 
a human brute. 

Desperate opposition is the best opportunity for a brave 
and great man. 

Editorial brick-bats and bouquets are bounding beatitudes 
of benevolence. 

We build and boom from day to day and leave but em- 
blems of decay. 

Building and living in castles of air will make a man happy 
most anywhere. 

The fish that swims in sauce and wine no more shall drink 
the ocean brine. 

The rulers and generals of today are soon forgotten when 
they pass away. 



116 TRUTH 

When Suspicion moves into the household, Faith and 
Love move out. 

When bankers in China lose their depositor's money they 
lose their heads. 

The bravest man in joy or sorrow may shed a tear each 
coming morrow. 

Those who flatter our pleasant vices are enemies of our 
sterling virtues. 

When your enemy imagines you are a coward his defeat 
is near at hand. 

Doing immediate good to another is great satisfaction to 
a generous soul. 

Nothing is invincible or impregnable to the brave brain, 
heart and hand. 

There never was a savage that e\er had any virtue, happi- 
ness or nobility. 

When friends, fortune and health depart, then self-reliance 
props the heart. 

A great person can make opportunity, and take immediate 
advantage of it. 

Sharing the honor and not the labor is a secret humiliation 
to a brave man. 

Many people use the cloak of Christ to cunningly cheat 
their customers. 

When llesh and bone decay to dust, no more shall reign 
our love or lust. 

Truth with immortal brilliant bloom shall flourish o'er 
the silent tomb. 



TRUTH 117 

The summer clam may have a sweet voice, but he is very 
silent in its use. 

Even the dark shadow of death cannot terrify the heart 
of a brave man. 

The shadow and echo are not good substitutes for the 
body and voice. 

Constant cheerfulness is the best medicine for any mind 
or body disease. 

The brave and good man is tortured at seeing the wrong 
he cannot right. 

Contrivance and persuasion for victory are better than 
fraud and force. 

Retired Army and Navy Officers are the patriotic jewels 
of the Republic. 

He who holds the heel of the lash may command the 
power and cash. 

Some people are honest because they cannot rob without 
being found out. 

It is easy for the honest man to decide between dark evil 
and bright good. 

The life sap of old Mother Earth in spring gives every- 
thing new birth. 

Little men suddenly elevated to high office give large 
autobiographies. 

How often the shadows of misfortune induce us to fight 
our imagination. 

You can conquer and kill calumny by not noticing its 
vile insinuations. 



118 TRUTH 

Boasting of what you will do is not so impressive as what 
you have done. 

Nature produces crooked and poison plants as she does 
pilfering people. 

The puritan, cynic and hermit mind are not fitted for 
civilized society. 

The eyes and ears of man are often led astray by the 
impulsive voice. 

Those who are prepared for failure break the back of 
disappointment . 

Crime, like a lost crow in a snow storm, roosts on the 
rocks of hunger. 

A narrow intellect cannot understand a broad and lofty 
hero of thought. 

He who conquers the body through fear fills the mind 
with vengeance. 

The poor man who buys fine clothes may wear them out 
in a pawn shop. 

Capital and labor, like the blades of a scissors, are useless 
when separated. 

If hope could be exchanged for money every man might 
be a millionaire. 

In the daylight of youth we should gain fortune for the 
night of old age. 

The person who cannot stand and defy criticism does not 
deserve to exist. 

Personal and political hypocrisy is as common as air, 
grass and water. 



TRUTH 119 

The greatest schemer is often caught in the trap he sets 
for his neighbor. 

Education is the lighthouse of hberty and ignorance the 
tomb of slavery. 

When gold and honor take their flight, vain man is wrapped 
in darkest night. 

In home and nation there has never been room enough 
for two Caesars ! 

Do not talk or write unless you can compose clean, 
truthful phrases. 

Perfect party organization is the prompt promoter of all 
political success. 

It matters not where Death takes place, it comes to all 
the human race. 

The beautiful ideal of the soaring soul is a sacred sacra- 
ment of success. 

The owl and the snake are imitators of voracious and 
crawling people. 

You will get more knowledge by thinking and listening 
than by talking. 

Riches, health and intelligence are poor props without 
perfect freedom. 

The vulgar and ignorant rich are more despicable than 
the vulgar poor. 

To be remembered for the good we do is present^'consola- 
tion to the true. 

Commercial credit will last as long as people believe in 
your cash value. 



120 TRUTH 

If politicians had less policy and more principle our laws 
would be better. 

Those who utter and hear slander should be hung by the 
tongue and ears. 

The devil and saint in strutting man are jointly working 
God's own plan. 

All forms of religion are manufactured by man as money 
making schemes. 

The serious face of greed is an unwelcome guest in the 
halls of pleasure. 

He who is haunted by the ghost of his secret crime is in 
constant misery. 

The people often destroy their greatest men from pure 
peevish jealousy. 

It is the soul and not the earthly situation that gives 
pleasure or pain. 

Modesty, politeness, knowledge and cash can flourish in 
any community. 

A new pilot with an old ship is not as safe as an old pilot 
with a new ship. 

We first rear the palace in the soul before it shines in 
marble splendor. 

A great ideal dynamites its irrepressible course into the 
real glory of life. 

Men of strident mental and physical force lead in every 
avocation of life. 

Fate, whether early, long or late, destroys the fraud in 
home and state. 



TRUTH 121 

There can be no good laws or good power unless the Ruler 
is innately, good. 

Guessing the right road of life is not as sure as measuring 
it by experience. 

Political spider-webs are quickly smashed by the sudden 
rush of a hornet. 

There is no healing antidote against the virus of a bad 
woman's tongue. 

In chasing wealth by force or stealth you lose your honor 
and your health. 

The fearless and desperate in battle are the winners of 
victory or death. 

The greatest man is finally blotted out as completely as 
the lost Atlantis. 

He who flatters himself into victory will be defeated by 
the same enemy. 

No power on earth can spoil or kill the glorious, un- 
conquerable will. 

The selfishness of ambitious and tyrannical rulers embroils 
the world in war. 

Good books are our best companions and lighten the 
load of daily life. 

The religion of love, liberty and equality is good enough 
for all humanity. 

An honest, truthful, unselfish lawyer is the solitaire gem 
of the profession. 

Detracting from the praise and glory of another does not 
add to your own. 



122 TRUTH 

A scar in the sapling remains in the oak, as youthful vice 
shows in old age. 

Time levels the loftiest monuments of princes to the lowest 
dust of peasants. 

Personal, political and religious fanatics are the worst 
tyrants on earth. 

When we shall see our own mistakes, the rain will turn 
to tea and cakes. 

Absolute health and happiness arc the rarest jewels in 
the crown of life. 

]\lcn and nations without conscience and justice drift to 
decay and death. 

A bad enemy will do you more injury than fifty friends 
can do you good. 

If children, fools and drunkards tell the truth what do 
other people tell? 

The plain people find no value in glittering jewels, emblems 
of human vanity. 

Fact and fancy should be congenial brothers and lighten 
each other's load. 

The loss of money may be replaced, but the loss of honor 
is never regained. 

Doing without what you cannot purchase is a preservation 
of independence. 

Constantly helping others is erecting the lasting mansion 
of our own glory. 

We grieve but little for another's woe and gladly see the 
troubles of a foe. 



TRUTH 123 

Be the last to tell a dear friend an unpleasant truth; let 
his enemies do it. 

Governmental prosecution of wealthy trusts is a game of 
how not to do it ! 

Political administration proposes and the people deposes 
at the ballot box. 

The extraneous objective life is controlled by the sub- 
jective soul force. 

With air and sun and falling showers God gives his children 
grain and flowers. 

' Historical lies linger and last through the ages with the 
strength of truth. 

The branches of our vice or virtue will take form from 
the original stem. 

Happy is the man who needs no recommendation or 
borrowed money. 

Many people believe that whiskey is liquid fire and dis- 
tilled damnation. 

Poor midgit man has never yet discovered the divine 
secrets of nature. 

A Tomboy-girl will make a manly companion for a Molly- 
coddle merchant. 

Wealth may bring great honor and power, but cannot 
assure happiness. 

A man who has made a fortune by fraud is secretly hated 
by his neighbors. 

Feathers, fur, wool and hair are the first garments of 
animated nature. 



124 TRUTH 

Common sense, honesty and work are the best civil-service 
recommendation . 

The voracious greed of the wicked for gain aids in their 
speedy detection. 

Charity, hke the air, rain and sun, covers all with its 
glorious tributes. 

Plain food and tranquillity of mind are the great pre- 
servers of health. 

Ambition is the lofty ladder that reaches to the starry 
skies of triumph. 

When our virtues and vices are coffined the harlot of 
envy is softened. 

Silence is the shield of the coward when truth demands 
brave expression. 

The prince never becomes a peasant, but the peasant 
becomes a prince. 

Weak men, like mice, hide under the clods and flags of 
official patronage. 

Bullets and bayonets are the strongest diplomats in 
national contests. 

Catering to corrupt success is a cowardly culmination of 
business conduct. 

Independence, faslehood and tyranny characterize the 
coward in power. 

A night of despair may be obliterated by the morning 
sunshine of hope. 

Heaven and hell are sentimental trappings of the hopeful 
and fearful mind. 



TRUTH 125 

It is impossible for a philosopher of principle to advocate 
a policy measure. 

A great philosopher and statesman is only consistent in 
his inconsistency. 

The blackberry crop of a farm betrays a lazy husbandman 
and lean granary. 

The morning dew will soon pass by and mount the sun- 
beams to the sky. 

Wisdom, wit and epigrams are the pepper and salt of 
editorial columns. 

Congress should represent the plain people and not the 
purple plutocrats. 

The changes in the weather and the Panama Canal are 
continued stories. 

The greatest rulers and generals have died the most 
miserable deaths. 

Carrying concealed weapons is a partial confession of a 
guilty conscience. 

Oriental proverbs and fables are the first parents of 
modern epigrams. 

To know how to live up to a high purpose is a master- 
piece of manhood. 

While we are in the hands of Fate we may guide her cast 
with soul impulse. 

"Love thy neighbor as thyself" does not include the man 
in the wrong pew. 

Great promise and little performance is not a link of 
lasting friendship. 



126 TRUTH 

Eternal hope with wings in motion soars over every 
mount and ocean. 

Do your daily duty as you see and feel it, and not as your 
neighbor dictates. 

He who works honestly and persistently for his employer 
works for himself. 

The favor and praise of the world are as fleeting as the 
leaves in October. 

In moments of famine a loaf of bread is more valuable 
than a gold brick. 

The faces, feet and hands of mankind will show their 
natural character. 

Knowledge without understanding is like a full stomach 
without digestion. 

Constant and just belief in yourself will secure the belief 
of your neighbors. 

The continuity of prosperity depends greatly on your 
wisdom and work. 

The true patriot and lover of his country is himself suffi- 
cient for ancestry. 

The orator and the audience are but a combination of 
mutual eloquence. 

A contrary disposition is ever found in a monkey, a 
woman and a hen. 

The poor are doubted by the poor and spurned by all 
from door to door. 

The hands on the clock of time never turn back and the 
dead never return. 



TRUTH 127 

Through all this earth in emerald green the hand of 
Providence is seen. 

Mind aristocracy is much more valuable and lasting than 
money aristocracy. 

Do not take up the time of a business man by asking 
him fool questions. 

Buying what you do not need will make you sell what 
you want to keep. 

How quickly we belittle and condemn what we cannot 
imitate or surpass. 

In time of war false and true vouchers for government 
supplies are twins. 

The free use of pen, ink and paper has paralyzed many a 
plotting politician. 

A person should pay no attention to censure or praise 
when undeserved. 

It is not wealth or rank or state, 'tis "git up and git" that 
makes men great ! 

Variety reading for the mind is relished as much as variety 
food for the body. 

Our personal and political constitution should be our 
first and last care. 

A man who sets his watch with everybody's watch will not 
have correct time. 

When everything seems to go wrong on the outside, ex- 
amine your inside. 

We quickly miss our meals and teeth as death entwines 
its somber wreath. 



128 TRUTH 

Verbal intoxication is often more dangerous than the 
bacchanaUan sort. 

The wounds of the heart and soul are more deadly than 
those of the body. 

Blending past sorrow with present joy gives a guarantee 
of future pleasure. 

The pedigree of the honest peasant is often cleaner than 
that of the prince. 

Civilization is consideration, commendation and charity 
for your neighbor. 

There is no man, town, city, state or nation that owns the 
Republican party. 

Dreams are the delineators of celestial visions pinioned 
with eternal hope. 

Flowers and cash for the living are more valuable than 
tears for the dead. 

There is not a day or flitting hour that does not conquer 
wealth and power. 

The impatient, impulsive tyrant mind will soon be left 
in ruin far behind. 

Every true individual can bow and kneel at the altar ol 
the human heart. 

Your friends depart with the decrease of your reputation , 
health and wealth. 

Our words and acts from day to day may rule when we 
have passed away. 

Why does a just God create a human animal who lies, 
robs and murders? 



TRUTH 129 

Political, religious and social revolutions are the grand 
videttes of liberty. 

Pursuing the right in the wrong way is not as bad as doing 
wrong in any way. 

The memory of a great and good man is a priceless heri- 
tage to the people. 

The garb of a nun or monk cannot change the lustful 
desire of the heart. 

With waves of heat and waves of cold grim Death destroys 
the young and old. 

How lightly we glide o'er life's wave and boast on the 
brink of the grave. 

There is more good than evil in the world, as sunshine 
exceeds the storm. 

Thousands of human beings may thank God that they 
are not found out ! 

The scales of justice are often as frail and thin as those on 
the back of a bass. 

Peace of mind, soundness of body and financial prosperity 
promote longevity. 

Many politicians who attempt construction of government 
end in destruction. 

It is harder to fight the temptations of prosperity than 
those of adversity. 

When you come to the cross-way of business life take the 
best traveled road. 

It is more natural for novel minds to lie inadvertently 
than tell the truth. 



130 TRUTH 

Truthful and honest action in the morning will help you 
at noon and night. 

A pubHc office is often a private trust for the promotion 
of personal friends. 

Great strength and instinct live alone in the man, the 
eagle and the lion. 

Continuous favorable advertisement is the very life of a 
practical politician. 

The clean-cut quality of your work will be noticed by the 
boss and rewarded. 

The plain, persistent, patriotic person is ever in power 
in any community. 

Bayonets and bullets may control the body, but cannot 
convince the mind. 

Thinking and believing about great deeds will propel you 
to their enactment. 

Great characters like great buildings have firm and rock- 
ribbed foundations. 

Learning without common sense is like putting a gold 
ring in a pig's nose. 

Memory monuments of literature are more lasting than 
marble and bronze. 

Washing and airing private linen for the public eye are 
foolish proceedings. 

Heart and soul friendship is not diminished by absence, 
adversity or death. 

Fine jewels, dresses, mansions and land will quickly ripen 
the love of woman. 



TRUTH 131 

When trouble comes to cloud your view, just laugh it off 
for something new. 

Virtue engrafted in the sapling of youth will shine forever 
in the tree of truth. 

The exchange of old for new political bosses brings little 
relief to the people. 

The ungrateful are full of pride and hate — snakes of 
crawling humanity. 

The birds that wing the ambient air are filled with joy 
and hope and care. 

The living links in the chain of life drop hour by hour in 
this world of strife. 

When eyes and teeth and heart grow old there's no more 
joy in fruit or gold. 

Freedom and slavery are as antagonistic as cats and rats 
or right and wrong. 

Perhaps within the great Hereafter, we'll know the house 
from floor to rafter. 

Religion is a revolution of conscience for the mysterious 
soarings of the soul. 

Arrogance lifts its nose into the murky atmosphere of 
contempt and hate. 

With a clear brain, good health and brave heart you can 
defy all misfortune. 

Treat the devil of doubt with contempt, and faith will 
be your companion. 

Sound mind, body and pocket are golden links in the 
chain of prosperity. 



132 TRUTH 

A tyrant love of power finally ends on the jagged rocks 
of disappointment. 

Politeness and perseverance permeate through the most 
intricate problems. 

Some fruit and grain of Mother Earth have never failed 
since we had birth. 

The cold of the atmosphere and heat of the body are 
constantly at war. 

The man of sweet and sunny mind pure pleasure through 
the world will find. 

Certain reproaches are commendations, and praise is 
sometimes slander. 

A man who thoroughly knows himself has a good under- 
standing of others. 

Energy, impudence and audacity are great elements of 
temporary success. 

Telling the truth to a superior endangers the official life 
of the subordinate. 

The thumb of thought is never safe between the hammer 
and anvil of doubt. 

He lives long and well who performs one great deed for the 
benefit of mankind. 

Secret crime jails the mind and roasts the victim on the 
gridiron of remorse. 

Children who lie to their parents will not hesitate to utter 
falsehood to others. 

The United States mail and the weather are as certain 
as taxes and death. 



TRUTH ] 33 

In the darkest valley of despair the brave man will quickly 
strike first and last. 

Those who advocate a principle and neglect a condition 
are false reformers. 

Expense and extravagance excommunicate you from 
peace and pleasure. 

The pushing, pugnacious punching man will be eventually 
punched out of life. 

The most successful dealer in Wall street is the rich 
speculator out of it. 

The diamonds, rubies and emeralds of wisdom outwear 
the jewels of mines. 

The worst feature of matrimony is the probability of 
producing ingrates. 

Diamond-pointed paragraphs of thought shine and cut 
like precious jewels. 

No one has ever seen a truly wise man, because he looks 
out of his own eyes. 

Compromise is the golden link that binds the friendship 
of men and nations. 

If health and wealth you wish to find, eat light, drink light 
and feed your mind. 

The poorest peasant of the plain is greater than the richest 
prisoner in a palace. 

The dark garments of grief should be exchanged for the 
bright colors of joy. 

Imagination is the palace of the soul and the delightful 
delusion of divinity. 



134 TRUTH 

Time is the cheapest and dearest jewel in the crumbHng 
casket of humanity. 

The grub worm and cockroach are created for the delecta- 
tion of the chicken. 

Daily enterprise earns a fortune while doubt and despair 
drift to destruction. 

Brandy is a bludgeon that has often beaten to death the 
patrons of Bacchus. 

Some characters, like icebergs in a sutnmer sea, create a 
chill whenever seen. 

The ignorance of religious devotees is only equaled by 
their fanatical hate. 

The purity of snow and woman become defiled by mixing 
with earthly things. 

Few men grasp victory from defeat, but many men are 
defeated by victory. 

Nature's noble man is superior to the manufactured 
article of monarchy. 

Laughter on the lips and sorrow in the heart are dis- 
agreeable neighbors. 

He who owes an honest debt must surely pay it to be 
square with himself. 

An honest difference of opinion should be taken with 
mutual equanimity. 

A good and able lawyer need not enter into the whirlpool 
of doubtful politics. 

The climate and soil of a country will indicate the char- 
acter of its citizens. 



TRUTH 135 

The human dove face may have the tongue of a serpent 
and claw of a hawk. 

To be kindly thought of when we pass away is consolation 
for our trials today. 

He who can laugh at the frowns of Fortune breaks the 
force of her enmity. 

The dignity of some men is so oppressive that it chills the 
presence of honesty. 

Why should I fight what others think, or dictate what 
they eat and drink? 

By securing lasting fame in this world we break the force 
of the tyrant death. 

When character and credit are lost the grave is the best 
place for the wreck. 

To the truly brave man adversity is the lever that lifts 
him into prosperity. 

What a hot, dusty, crooked road leads up to the glimmer- 
ing heights of fame ! 

When wealth and power rule the body and soul, destruc- 
tion is near at hand. 

Great Destiny prevails from pole to pole, yet guided by 
the Pilot of the soul. 

Insane passion that robs and murders at will should be 
shot like a mad dog. 

It is better to have one per cent of contentment than ten 
per cent of prospect. 

Cheap food, cheap clothes, cheap labor and cheap friends 
are ever the dearest. 



136 TRUTH 

Those who Hsten to the alluring voice of vice violate the 
injunctions of truth. 

The secret curiosity of the heart has often lost the virtue 
of the innocent soul. 

The man who constantly boasts of his bravery entertains 
a doubtful audience. 

Great wealth and power must soon decay, but wisdom 
shall not pass away. 

The honey of prosperity may be gathered from the wild 
flowers of adversity. 

Religion should embrace all humanity and tolerate the 
truth in every creed. 

Bad weather, like bad character, breaks the spirit of the 
bright and beautiful. 

Be brave enough to out-live past failures and you will de- 
serve future success. 

The longest day and century are very short in the 
calendar of eternity. 

Judicial injunctions do not enjoin when the executive 
department opposes. 

Principle without policy, is the rarest gem in the casket 
of moral philosophy. 

The large old barnyard cock is ever jealous of the young 
and crowing rooster. 

The moving, attacking force, nine times out of ten, con- 
quers the hesitating. 

He who is an expert in any line of business will find ready 
and profitable work. 



TRUTH 137 

The censure of enemies keeps alive and perpetuates the 
praise of our friends. 

No amount of money can compensate a gentleman for 
the loss of his honor. 

The impulsive eloquence of the orator is the lightning 
stroke of conviction. 

The statesman who controls the purse and sword can 
defy all competitors. 

There is a universal inequality in the brain and body of 
all animated nature. 

Latitude and longitude do not measure the patriot's 
love for his country. 

An imperfect thought, like an imperfect seed, will pro- 
duce imperfect fruit. 

Hope and work, like Otis elevators, take us to the top 
story of expectation. 

To live in the memory of the good is craved by all our 
human brotherhood. 

A wise man will endeavor to surround himself with men 
greater than himself. 

Great is the person who is not humbled by adversity or 
elated by prosperity. 

A government of the truth, by the truth and for the truth 
cannot be destroyed. 

Envy feeding on viper salad grows green with jealousy 
and black with hate. 

Our secret passions, like a nest of vipers, sting and kill 
when least expected. 



138 TRUTH 

The greatest ambition of office holders is to perpetuate 
themselves in power. 

Those who tolerate falsehood and tyranny join in their 
destructive qualities. 

The winter crow, through storms of snow, can find his 
roost at sunset glow. 

The wise man sees the finish at the beginning of the 
building of the ship. 

The twins — Dignity and Dullness — have often passed 
current for Wisdom. 

The intelligent "hireling" often becomes the proprietor 
of the establishment. 

God's original stamp on the conscience and countenance 
cannot be eradicated. 

In God we trust and in Roosevelt we burst into revised 
American prosperity. 

True philanthropy and benevolence never advertise their 
donations to charity. 

An able, corrupt and wicked lawyer is the trust anaconda 
of the American bar. 

Brain, bullion and law ever subdue and conquer innocence, 
poverty and passion. 

The imprisonment of the body is often the best for the 
salvation of the soul. 

Crosses and losses are given to all and none are exempt in 
the spring or the fall. 

Telling and acting the truth will induce the other indi- 
vidual to do likewise. 



TRUTH 139 

A royal, lofty, intellectual tyrant is preferable to a petty 
puppet of despotism. 

He who thoroughly understands himself need not stop to 
explain to the world. 

We come and go like shadows on the sea or hopes that 
soar to vast eternity. 

Individuals and banks are "perfectly good" until they are 
broke and found out. 

He who builds a house to suit everybody will have no 
house to suit himself. 

Freedom of thought, word and action is the real glory of 
an American citizen. 

Those who deal in liquors and tobaccos prosper on the 
passions of mankind. 

The secrets of internal nature are closely guarded from 
preaching humanity. 

The losing gambler has no friends and the winning one 
but little conscience. 

There is no faker so strenuous as the newspaper catch 
head-line advertiser. 

He who can express the truth in the fewest words is the 
greatest philosopher. 

Those who are praised the highest today may be damned 
the lowest tomorrow. 

The fire hose of the people must extinguish the fiery 
arrogance of tyrants. 

The winds of human passion are more destructive than 
the storms of nature. 



140 TRUTH 

We do magnanimous things for others that they may 
rebound to ourselves. 

Corporations and trusts secretly bribe the shrewdest 
lawyers in the nation. 

A sporting mind, although a losing one, is never bereft 
of irrepressible hope. 

A clear conscience can ever rest in peace on the pillow of 
pride and prosperity. 

Overloading the brain and belly with rich and luscious 
food is self-slaughter. 

The American people have an impulsive way of smashing 
idols on election day. 

Tyrant justice and the Japanese keep step with spiritual 
and material interest. 

When passion fires the heart and brain, destruction rules 
with shame and pain. 

Public officers are soon forgotten when out of power — the 
empty nest is useless. 

The bright sunrise of success often sets amid the clouds 
of sorrow and defeat. 

Many good friends will give you a ton of sympathy and 
not an ounce of cash. 

The greatest pilot at the wheel and compass of life can be 
substituted instanter. 

The secret swindling of mankind under the guise of religion 
and law still prevails. 

To be remembered for the good we spread is consolation 
for the glorious dead. 



TRUTH 141 

Many business men brag and boast most when on the 
brink of bankruptcy. 

The legislator, executive and courts are the secret tools 
of wealth and power. 

Bullies are brutal braggarts, knocked out by the first 
blow of a brave man. 

When a man prefers his enemies to his friends he is in 
league with the devil. 

Suspicion and envy, like the sting of the adder, poisons 
the system of society. 

The darting, glinting summer swallows find insect food 
o'er hills and hollows. 

Real dignity and greatness never dread contact with 
the poor and humble. 

A spot of scandal on the pure white bosom of chastity 
can never be cleaned. 

What a world of sorrow the bullet of one crazy fanatic 
can bring to a nation ! 

The gods are good to work and truth through tottering 
age or rushing youth. 

The daily foot prints of the gardener is a promise of 
vegetables and fruits. 

The greatest health and wealth and power are crushed 
within one little hour. 

What is crime in the huts of poverty is only eccentricity 
in the halls of wealth. 

The lips of love backed by the devotion of a true heart 
can never prove false. 



142 TRUTH 

We quickly contribute for our selfish glory and move like 
a snail to help others. 

Virtue preserves the health of the mind as daily exercise 
strengthens the body. 

The soul is the sunlight of Omnipotence piercing all nature 
with its immortal life. 

The newspaper and magazine cannot rise higher than the 
proprietor and editor. 

Presenting the naked truth to the eyes of the weak is a 
dangerous proceeding. 

Those who are most happy with the least are least 
happy with the most. 

The desire of some people for praise is as voracious as a 
hungry hog for slops. 

The grindstone of poverty will wear off even the nose and 
toes of a philosopher. 

Praise and promotion to the faithful laborer is as necessary 
as pork and potatoes. 

Were all mankind created white and honest there would 
not be a war of races. 

Unexpected happiness is like a refreshing rain shower to 
a field of fading corn. 

The glaring mistakes of great men weigh but little in the 
scales of final success. 

The political deceiver and demagogue is an ever present 
nuisance in a republic. 

The king of disease walks the world with noiseless tread 
and voiceless as death. 



TRUTH 143 

He who preaches virtue and truth on Sunday must prac- 
tice them on Monday. 

Many a subordinate writer has more brains than the 
editor and proprietor. 

Hope, action and reflection wing us through youth, 
manhood and old age. 

Great tact and common sense, are better quaHties in a 
President than talent. 

The hawk, the fox and the preacher are natural enemies 
of the chicken family. 

The royal robe of a millionaire would buy a million meals 
for starving mankind. 

To manipulate the wealthy and wise you must scratch 
them where they itch. 

A scar in the confidence of a friend is the death knell of 
continuous friendship. 

The brave and true heart never alters in the mount of 
light or vale of gloom. 

Revolution and blood are the only final means to extirpate 
injustice and tyranny. 

Climbing into power on another man's ladder is the act of 
a sneak and a coward. 

TeUing the plain, blunt truth may not be good policy, but 
is ever good principle. 

Wise words and noble deeds in life will prolong your name 
and fame after death. 

I smash the wrongs of vested rights and right the wrongs 
of the poor and weak. 



144 TRUTH 

The weather and disease attack mortals at birth and 
assure ultimate death. 

Private good conduct is a better protection than the 
panoply of pubHc law. 

Desperation in the face of great danger has often triumphed 
over immediate death. 

The tyranny of trusts can only be broken by the trip 
hammer of revolution. 

The cunning, corrupt and cowardly mind undergoes 
perpetual punishment. 

It is easy to preach the simple life when surrounded with 
luxurious habiliments. 

True courtesy springs from the kindness of the heart and 
the purity of the soul. 

A man of truth and desperation is ever given the right of 
way — until he is shot ! 

Regret and remorse for follies of youth will cause us in 
age to act up to truth. 

The pope, prince and president may prosper on pork, 
parsnips and potatoes. 

Even the poorest have bread, meat and fish, and the 
richest have the same. 

Preaching virtue and practicing vice is doing the work 
of his Satanic majesty. 

Love and laughter can shake away the groans and wrinkles 
from an age of misery. 

Hope of personal and political gain blinds us to the truth 
of men and principles. 



TRUTH 145 

The inheritance of brain is far more valuable than the 
inheritance of bullion. 

We can do for posterity what posterity never did 
for us — think and act. 

Common sense is a compartment car where everybody 
finds a cushioned seat. 

The blood of revolution has ever been the bloom and fruit 
of national prosperity. 

The inalienable right of many individuals is natural and 
unconscious stupidity. 

Sisters of charity and brothers of mercy are beatitudes 
of earthly consolation. 

The saloon, the jail and the scaflFold are the triple steps 
to criminal conclusion. 

The modem preachers of politics, religion and science have 
gold and fame in view. 

There is no honest word or work that goes uncompensated 
in the plan of creation. 

A man who is master of his honesty rules the best craft in 
the stream of business. 

Intense desire to secure impossible things is a thorn in 
the heart of happiness. 

The brutality of wealthy and educated frauds is far worse 
than criminal poverty. 

Scandal, falsehood and vengeance will be consumed by 
their own fires of hate. 

God gives personal opinion to every mortal and tolerates 
every creed and crime. 



146 TRUTH 

The hunger and voracity of a cat are desperately increased 
by the sight of a rat. 

An American first, last and all the time should be the boast 
of every state citizen. 

How we cling to the deformities of our bad habits and often 
ignore the good ones. 

It is impossible to enslave free people who maintain a free 
vote and a free press. 

Gold may be a salve for infamy and crime, but wretched 
is the life that feels it. 

The great robber often imprisons or hangs the little 
rogues to save himself. 

Dainties and delicacies delight the debauched, but not 
the devoted and sober. 

He who allows prosperity to run ahead of his pocket will 
cripple his companion. 

Those who are ready to praise virtuous and noble actions 
take part in the glory. 

No citizen has a right to deny or withhold citizenship 
from any other citizen. 

It is better to strike first and even pay a fine than to be 
hit by the other fellow. 

Those born into the lap of wealth and power are deprived 
of individual ambition. 

The doors of paradise ever stand open for the reception 
of the benevolent man. 

When people are in your debt they have a sudden way of 
evading your presence. 



TRUTH 147 

The warts and carbuncles of the mind cannot be extirpated 
by the iodine of desire. 

Covetousness for getting more deprives us of the enjoy- 
ment of what we have. 

The political liar is the most perennial patriot in the plati- 
tudes of prevarication. 

The first crack in confidence between friends lets in the 
daylight of dissolution. 

Promotion in salary and business depends largely on your 
own energy and talent. 

Those who mingle with bad characters and briers must 
expect to be scratched. 

The rushing world will praise loudly false merit and often 
censure modest worth. 

Audacity, regulated by reason, is absolutely necessary to 
the winning politician. 

The man of the hour will soon pass away and even his 
memory melt to decay. 

He who openly attempts to reform the world has a thank- 
less and dangerous job. 

Labor and capital working together can prosper each day 
in all kinds of weather. 

Nature alone inspires the true poet and wings him into 
the heaven of skylarks. 

The political embezzlement of money and power prevails 
in pampered provinces. 

The sun is the solitaire diamond pin shining in the starry 
breast of Omnipotence. 



148 TRUTH 

Waiting for justice and prosperity on a hungry stomach 
is torture to the proud. 

The just vengeance of oppressed people finds periodical 
glory in kilHng tyrants. 

Character, like an ocean crag, can challenge the assaults 
of the roughest storms. 

He who attempts business without means would bail up 
the ocean with a sieve. 

Homer, Plato, Christ and Shakspere were the greatest 
poets and philosophers. 

The tired heart and soaring soul ever craves a better land 
than this sordid sphere. 

Most human clocks run down at eighty and are not wound 
up this side of eternity. 

False flattery and secret egotism have often ruined the 
politeness of an author. 

The first entrance into a conspiracy of crime is the final 
parting with happiness. 

Throwing pearls of praise over a corpse is a useless waste 
of be jeweled eloquence. 

The wheel of fortune is ever in motion for those who 
deeply think and work. 

Science is silently and surely slaughtering cunning creeds, 
crowns and corruption. 

Thinking and talking about a lost cause only stirs the 
secret nettles of defeat. 

The friendship of a courtier lasts just as long as the loaves 
and fishes of patronage. 



TRUTH 149 

Men, like rough or smooth diamonds, are ever appreciated 
for their intrinsic value. 

War conducted with wisdom, freedom and great force is 
a triumphant certainty. 

The straggling, broken fences of a farm indicate no 
thrift or bank account. 

Tyrant labor and tyrant capital should have no place in 
the American Republic. 

Cutting shoe strings from another man's leather is easier 
than tanning your own. 

The politician who uses the people to serve himself will 
not use them very long. 

A great reputation built upon the glory of a lie is a gnawing 
cancer to remembrance. 

Pain and pleasure alternate like cold and heat, night and 
day or right and wrong. 

A brilliant morgue of classical literature becomes the 
lighthouse for posterity. 

Prejudice puts the blackest and brainiest negro below 
the meanest white man. 

A prisoner without money or a lawyer is as helpless as a 
hen in a Texas blizzard. 

Great fish are caught by small bait as beautiful belles are 
lured by gold and glory. 

Selfishness and hypocrisy are universal and damnable 
traits in human nature. 

Firefly characters only emit a transient light like their 
prototypes of the lawn. 



150 TRUTH 

Virtue, integrity and intelligence in private life will be a 
reflex in public station. 

He who is anchored in the haven of truth will weather 
the storms of adversity. 

Perseverance and continual persistency in any sphere of 
life eventually triumph. 

He who worships at any human shrine forgets his man- 
hood and independence. 

The financial inequalities of mankind are as glaring as 
their mental attributes. 

Be not startled by quick warning, but face dark death 
and say Good Morning ! 

Work, patience and time are absolutely necessary to 
secure any lasting good. 

Regrets and remorse in old age are the wicked children 
of youthful indiscretion. 

The smallest men have the largest autobiography in the 
Congressional Directory. 

Spontaneous and unselfish love for other people is the 
secret of true happiness. 

Give it a laugh and a song and a cheer and the world will 
respond year after year. 

Some people have a great faculty of trying to do the right 
thing in the wrong way. 

The long tails and tongues of foxes and tattlers should be 
caught in the same trap. 

Those who cannot stand investigation and criticism should 
move out of public sight. 



TRUTH 151 

The spiritual individual is as far above the sordid man as 
the stars above the sea. 

We flatter those in poHtical power for the purpose of using 
them for personal gain. 

The picture of a friend in the heart is a thousand fold 
dearer than on the wall. 

Prosecution of illegal corporations and trusts begins and 
ends in talk, talk, talk. 

The eloquent epigram, poem or book betrays the true soul 
and heart of the author. 

He who cheats a Jew, a Yankee or a Scotchman is 
welcome to his bargain. 

We fall at last whether drunk or sober, like withered 
leaves in bleak October. 

Every idea and human being created are only quotations 
from ancestral progeny. 

A sincere remorse for vanished intemperance is a great 
help for future sobriety. 

Light eating, drinking, working and sound sleeping pro- 
long life and happiness. 

A pill of cold lead can cure the disease of any tyrant in 
home, church and state. 

Some people talk so fast that Echo has no chance to catch 
up with their last words. 

God is the great Artist and pictures the colors of divinity 
on his universal canvas. 

The philosopher of a daily newspaper must tickle the 
interest of every reader. 



152 TRUTH 

Financial policy often prevents the production of back- 
bone political editorials. 

When crops of thought and grain are ripe they should be 
cut and cured instanter. 

The love and cheers of friends today are better than a 
thousand blasts of fame. 

Many a poor old cask of human care carries within the 
good wine of knowledge. 

A bad custom with good reason is worse than a good 
custom with bad reason. 

How many beautiful and patriotic lies are chiseled on 
mouldering monuments ! 

Great men know how to hide their ability to more easily 
conquer their adversary. 

Many business men and corporations boast the loudest on 
the brink of bankruptcy. 

Virtuous or wicked environment for the young will change 
even natural disposition. 

Soul virtue is the basis of true character more lasting 
than granite mountains. 

A large number of postmaster politicians get a dose of 
oblivion before they die. 

Those who live for the good of other people have found the 
secret of true happiness. 

The office seeker in the last administration may be the 
office holder in the next. 

The great power of silence is shown in the constant germi- 
nating quality of nature. 



TRUTH 153 

The secret immoralities of the rich are the gnawing cancers 
of their sure destruction. 

When we cease to think, speak and act wisely, wickedness 
takes the helm of reason. 

The worst and best die just the same, and each goes 
down with guilt or fame. 

The Pope, Prince and President are cradled and coffined 
in weakness and oblivion. 

When ignorance rules the body and mind the poor human 
wreck is soon left behind. 

The constitutional judgment knot of the supreme court 
can be cut by the sword. 

The ignorant and intelligent are alike flattered if you 
praise their pet schemes. 

Plant the sound seed of thought and work and you will 
reap a harvest of success. 

Vanity and egotism are at the bottom of the philanthropic 
donations of millionaires. 

Constant and sure employment for labor is best for the 
individual and the state. 

Drinking liquor and preaching temperance is as consistent 
as vice educating virtue. 

We often leap by one bound from the depths of despair 
to the heights of delight. 

He who has the mind of a prince and the purse of a pauper 
is a very miserable man. 

The trying vicissitudes of youth are rungs in the ladder 
of manhood and success. 



154 TRUTH 

Continual disappointment in love and business is a severe 
test of human character. 

Beautiful proverbs and platitudes preached by politicians 
have no practical utility. 

Longevity depends largely on care and prudence for 
mind, body and fortune. 

Those who wield the sword successfully can make and 
unmake any human law. 

We would rather believe a lie that flatters us than a 
truth that condemns us. 

Between bread and bourbon Kentuckians kindle the fires 
of feuds and hospitality. 

Good and bad destiny can be colored and changed by 
radical personal conduct. 

Reputation is built up deed by deed like bricks in con- 
structing lofty mansions. 

Many of the daughters of the American revolution look 
like great grandmothers. 

He who introduces you to a great and wise book may be 
your greatest benefactor. 

A prince today and pauper tomorrow will teach the 
lesson of joy and sorrow. 

The muck-rakers, hay-rakers and gold-rakers are victorious 
in their separate spheres. 

No one, whether Pope, Prince or President, ever forced 
the wrong into the right. 

Great men, with intrepid and lofty minds, will rise over 
the strokes of misfortune. 



TRUTH 155 

There never was a person in this world indispensable to 
its progress or happiness. 

Desire to leave a good and honest name behind is the best 
evidence of a great man. 

A scholar derives his greatest candle light from the rushing 
world of love and work. 

The criminal has often sat on the bench with the scape- 
goat victim in the dock. 

Telling and acting out the naked truth is the special mission 
of the lofty philosopher. 

Conversation is the sugar of thought sprinkled over the 
pound-cake of sociability. 

Thoreau was as transcendental as the sheen on a sunbeam 
or the vision of a dream. 

Emile Berliner, voicing down the ages, shall long resound 
on glowing, golden pages. 

Talking your soul sentiment to a stone wall is safer than 
confiding in Congressmen. 

We learn more from the observation and study of mankind 
than from all the schools. 

A well regulated night key would save us from expressing 
innumerable fabrications. 

Political hero worship is as transient as defeat or victory 
in a presidential election. 

There are not many of us who will be remembered one 
hundred years from now. 

Broken vows, broken idols and broken hearts are the 
saddest ruins of humanity. 



156 TRUTH 

Eloquent platitudes without principle are as weak as 
war ships without water. 

The price of living grows higher and higher like the blaz- 
ing ashes of volcanic fire. 

We seldom tire listening to our praise, but fall asleep to 
the glory of our neighbor. 

The silent sow and brutal boar in the financial trough are 
the fat hogs of humanity. 

Many words might be left unsaid to the great advantage 
of vain, impulsive people. 

When the devil and debt drive your coach the passenger 
is doomed to destruction. 

The flowers of earth and stars of heaven are the poetic 
emblems of Omnipotence. 

When a man designedly insults you with his tongue, knock 
him down with your fist. 

A fool is flattered by his own philosophy and failure lies 
in wait at every crossing. 

Man has no initiative in his birth, life or death, and what 
he is he is not by his will. 

"Cease to do evil and learn to do well," and thus escape 
the warning wrath of hell. 

A clean-cut literary phrase maker is the razor that shaves 
off the warts of the world. 

He who regrets the past, neglects the present and fears the 
future is a natural failure. 

Disappointment, dissatisfaction and despair are but spurs 
of success to a brave man. 



TRUTH 157 

The best and most profitable club for any man to join 
heartily is his own library. 

Dimes and dollars, pence and pounds, stop with the hare 
and run with the hounds. 

The self-reliance and vaulting vanity of a great man is 
felt more than expressed. 

He who can close his eyes forever without a single regret 
is a supreme philosopher. 

The unprecedented things we say and do are the longest 
remembered by mankind. 

The loss of one social straw in a stack of pandering poli- 
ticians will not be missed. 

A key of gold can unlock the pad-lock of a stable or the 
dead-lock of a legislature. 

The rocky will power of the soul breaks to pieces the 
dashing waves of destiny. 

Those who love work and duty for their own sake become 
famous without intention. 

Truth, honor, work and economy will guarantee success 
in every avocation of life. 

Great is the mortal who can endure the highest and lowest 
fortune with equanimity. 

It is nobler to fight the troubles of life to the end than 
cowardly commit suicide. 

The great and glorious of long ago have vanished like the 
sheen on mountain snow. 

Crushing sin beneath our feet is harder than crushing 
candy between our teeth. 



158 TRUTH 

Greater men live and die unknown than those who are 
constantly in public view. 

Traveling in bad company and brier fields will scratch 
and bleed the best people. 

The politician who is cheered to the skies today may be 
hissed to hades tomorrow. 

Conscience is the chairman of the Committee of Ways and 
Means of each individual. 

When a man loves his neighbor as himself he will be found 
in the graveyard of glory. 

Mankind is a moving mass of mysterious selfishness and 
hugger-mugger hypocrisy. 

Brain, beauty, grace and a low, sweet voice in woman are 
imperishable adornments. 

Our Uncle Sam runs this grand Nation and laughs at 
threats and dire dictation. 

The man who can make opportunity and circumstance is 
master of every situation. 

A degenerate who boasts of illustrious ancestors adver- 
tises his own degradation. 

The royal robbers and murderers of monarchy should be 
extirpated from the earth. 

Excess of thought and action will ultimately produce 
excess of misery and ruin. 

Antecedent human action and consequent effect are 
twins of failure or success. 

The productions of a man's brain or hand should be la- 
beled by his own estimate. 



TRUTH 159 

He who doubts himself and underrates his power will 
be overpowered Ijy failure. 

A philosopher without office is a thousand fold stronger 
than a politician in power. 

Remembering happier days will brush away the stormy 
clouds of the passing hour. 

The good conduct taught by all churches is a good 
reason for their existence. 

To ignore or defy spleen, scandal and vengeance is the 
part of a true philosopher. 

The axe, the plough and the hammer are the original 
implements of civilization. 

Those who feel that they have nothing to say or do might 
give the undertaker a job. 

A polite "good morning" on the broad way of life is a 
cheer for the business day. 

The hope of the smart politician does not always ma- 
terialize at the ballot box. 

Brilliant coquettes may lose their reputation, but not 
their virtue and character. 

Although truth be hid in a hole or a haystack, it never 
fails to spring to the light. 

The optimistic mind is a magical menagerie of munificent 
and mellifluous happiness. 

The silent soul spirit of a good book ever awaits com- 
munion with a true friend. 

The severest slavery is for a poor philosopher to be obli- 
gated to a rich ignoramus. 



160 TRUTH 

Sharp politicians do unprecedented things to call attention 
to their fantastic schemes. 

Fanatical converts from one religion to another are as 
unstable as running water. 

The ignorant, hungry and shelterless are not managed by 
the platitudes of morality. 

He who attempts to reform public vices is in danger of 
deforming his own virtues. 

The great difference between Capital Union and Labor 
Union is brain and bullion. 

A bad conscience filled with corrupt motives is worse 
than a den of rattlesnakes. 

To be remembered for the good we do is sweeter than 
bright drops of honey dew. 

Who can forget the dashing hand sleds of boyhood or the 
kiss of his first sweetheart ? 

While detecting and blaming the blunders of others we 
make a dozen of our own. 

A wise and lofty phrase wings its brilliant flight through 
the literary storms of ages. 

Confidentially telling friends their faults is a sure way of 
breaking the links of love. 

The statesman is the hero for principle, the politician a 
plodder for pelf and power. 

Daily physical exercise is the best doctor and renders no 
bill for professional service. 

The Secretary of State is not the Root of all evil, but the 
gold and glory of all good. 



TRUTH 161 

Great and blessed is the one who can be master of practical 
matters from day to day. 

The fall from intense friendship and love is the most 
deplorable situation in life. 

There seems to be no particular haste to increase the sal- 
aries of government clerks. 

Brain and capital have never finally failed in moulding 
labor to their financial will. 

Education, civilization, Christianity and war are a quar- 
tette of natural destroyers. 

The fed dog barks a welcome to his master while the hun- 
gry cur snarls in the street. 

Should we never waken from a sound sleep. Death will be 
robbed of its usual victory. 

Harmonious body, clothes, cash and language are the 
greatest helps to happiness. 

A rich and truthful saying is an imperishable clinker in 
the ash heaps of humanity. 

Experience without knowledge and wisdom is as useless as 
a bucket without a bottom. 

Good conduct among the rich or poor is the best test of 
virtue and true citizenship. 

It is pathetic to behold a generous and noble heart strug- 
gling with an empty purse. 

The sunny soul and heart are never afflicted with the 
sleet and snow of suspicion. 

In the makeup of this every day world, the innocent con- 
stantly suffer for the guilty. 



162 TRUTH 

The friend who praised us to the skies last year may 
damn us to oblivion today. 

The finest human ships are blown ashore on the waves 
and rocks of intemperance. 

The mistakes of yesterday and today will meet us as 
ghosts of failure tomorrow. 

The religious and political hypocrites are cut from the 
same bolt of shoddy cloth. 

The greatest mind absorbs and includes all the little 
minds in the neighborhood. 

Mental, physical and financial selfishness is the pro- 
peller of all human action. 

God in his mercy gives sunshine and rain and mingles each 
life with pleasure and pain. 

Common news items die with the day, but true maxims 
and epigrams live forever. 

Tyrants of thought and power are the most dangerous 
vipers of animated nature. 

It cannot be honestly expected that the daily editor shall 
be at his best all the time. 

A person without purpose, principle or pounds is as useless 
as a bucket without hoops. 

Knowledge is a very jealous mistress and allows no flirting 
with pretence and egotism. 

The masonry of manhood is the most magnificent order 
in the Lodge of Humanity. 

The created cannot know its maker any more than a spin- 
ning top knows the turner. 



TRUTH 163 

The true philosopher extracts rainbows of hope from the 
storm-clouds of misfortune. 

How waves of human earth worms wriggle and roll into 
the dark ocean of oblivion ! 

The lover is the lever that lifts the weight of sorrow from 
the shoulders of humanity. 

Beautiful boasting with brains, bravery and bullion to 
back it benefits everybody. 

Living along the rough edges of want will make you 
thoughtful and economical. 

How ready we are to overlook our own failings while 
rebuking those of another ! 

The natural disposition and form created in animated 
nature is never eradicated. 

Vanished glory is like the sputtering of a dying candle in 
the socket of remembrance. 

In the brightest sunshine of our prosperity there lurk the 
darkest clouds of adversity. 

The work of the mind, heart and hand of every person is 
for sale for power and gold. 

If the ox and the tiger changed dispositions each of them 
would soon starv^e to death. 

Though storms obscure, the stars still shine and hungry 
hearts may wine and dine. 

He who pockets an intended insult for the sake of policy 
is a poltroon and a coward. 

A man just out of prison without a dollar or friend is in 
trim to commit a new crime. 



164 TRUTH 

By sitting on porcelain door knobs an author cannot hatch 
out beautiful birds of fancy. 

Those who die for liberty and truth can be assured that 
their cause shall never die. 

He who has uttered a great thought and performed a great 
deed has lived long enough. 

He who is weak enough to form an undesirable friendship 
is base enough to betray it. 

People have often lost their liberty by lack of vigilance 
and courage to maintain it. 

A brave, outspoken, impulsive man is far better for a 
friend than a smooth sneak. 

The fool burns his candle at both ends while the philoso- 
pher is a light unto himself. 

Laws are made by the rich and strong to bamboozle and 
swindle the poor and weak. 

He who sharpens his tongue on the anvil of truth will out- 
last the hammer of scandal. 

United labor, ruled by reason, can mould the laws of the 
Republic at the ballot box. 

It is better to be popular with the many poor than have 
the regard of the few rich. 

Ambition for wealth and power has destroyed the happi- 
ness of families and nations. 

This nation is too great for any man or state to prevent 
its progress and perpetuity. 

The frost work of cold misfortune is soon dispelled by 
the warm sunshine of labor. 



TRUTH 165 

It is far more profitable for the people to build one hundred 
school houses than one jail. 

When the bottom rail is on top the grubs, bugs and 
roaches die in the sunshine. 

Moral, individual and international opinion will soon 
arbitrate the causes of war. 

Dirt, whiskey and fanatical religion are continual de- 
stroyers of the human race. 

Some characters, like the skylark, flood the world with 
showers of melody and love. 

The doctrine that the King and the people can do no 
wrong is but a flattering lie. 

A combination of sentiment and business lasts as long as 
sympathy and cash prevail. 

Those who pay no personal or real taxes are the servants 
and slaves of those who do. 

The golden tie of material business binds political parties 
into one mass of monopoly. 

Ignorance, bigotry and imagination are the perennial 
springs of fanatical religion. 

Garlands on the brow of blatant beauty and power have 
been won by silent workers. 

He who does good for the sake of the good never puts a 
mortgage on his conscience. 

A twenty-ton American battleship will be the best peace 
Commissioner of the future. 

Never associate with a man that you would be unwilling 
to introduce to your family. 



166 TRUTH 

Today his name is lauded to the skies, tomorrow shows 
the graveyard where he lies. 

The lineage of men and women who do not reproduce 
themselves dies out forever. 

Microbes are the messengers of the creator to masticate 
the membranes of mankind. 

The study of the uniformity of nature will help us to 
round our lives with reason. 

Every garment of human happiness is interwoven with 
concealed threads of sorrow. 

There is no honor in belonging to a rich, social, eating, 
drinking and gambling club. 

Politeness is the perfume of daily life and punctuates the 
purity of personal principle. 

Envy and jealousy cling to the sordid mind like the shell 
to a diamond-back terrapin. 

Silver, gold and diamonds do not bring sure happiness, 
but great trouble when lost. 

A wise man mixes with the crowd and gathers knowledge 
from passion and adversity. 

This transient life is rounded by a sleep where all in turn 
may laugh or sigh or weep. 

Honesty and intelligence of individual citizens is the 
corner-stone of the republic. 

Out of ten thousand Sunday preachers there is not one 
of them that says anything! 

While fortune gives us gold and glory today it gives us 
pain and poverty tomorrow. 



TRUTH 167 

The soundness of apples and potatoes cannot be judged 
by their outside appearance. 

The pen dropped from his cold, dead hand and left him a 
wreck on the shores of time ! 

"Don't care" goes to the pawnshop, the poor house, the 
prison and the potters' field. 

Shedding tears over the ashes of dead hopes does not cure 
the scars of disappointment. 

We may be content and happy with a mill when others 
are miserable with a million. 

The poorest home in the land is happy when lit by the 
light of love and confidence. 

The royal robbers and murderers of monarchy must be 
exterminated by the people. 

There is no sensible person perfectly happy, for mind and 
body are ever in contention. 

The candle light of genius while irradiating the pathway 
of the world consumes itself. 

The crooked conscience and the crooked camel cannot 
help their natural affiictions. 

The repetitions in the Christian bible are as numerous as 
the quotations in Confucius. 

Liberty and slavery of mind and body are universal ele- 
ments of light and darkness. 

Wealth and power continually encroach on the poor and 
weak in all lands and climes. 

While we proclaim our triumph for to-morrow, death tears 
the parchment of life to-day. 



168 TRUTH 

A true friend when you are absent will not listen to your 
censure by scandal mongers. 

It is better to be filled with the light of exaggerated hope 
than the darkness of doubt. 

Governmental injunction is of doubtful relief, and no one 
knows who will be hit next. 

Reparation may be made for crime, but its memory will 
haunt the actor to his grave. 

Liberty and self-reliance are the inalienable rights of 
every individual and nation. 

The keen public man who seemingly does not seek promo- 
tion is sought by the people. 

A trickling leak in the strongest dam will, if not stopped, 
destroy the whole structure. 

Continual perseverance prevails with the plodding patriot 
and progressive philosopher. 

Advice to the pauper is poor consolation to a hungry 
stomach and battered brain. 

He is a wise man who does not bother himself about get- 
ting things he does not want. 

Hit a liar with a club of truth and you quickly jolt him 
from his pedestal of pretence. 

When health, money and reputation are gone it is time 
to put up the shutters of life. 

Talk, indifference and idleness are daily travelers to the 
poorhouse and potters' field. 

No citizen of the Republic should be sent to prison without 
a trial by a jury of his peers. 



TRUTH 169 

The hearts of the rich are often nesting places for the 
hornets of fear and remorse. 

Hold your head and eyes to the sun and stars and leap 
along to the mounts of glory. 

It is difficult for the eagles of literature to commingle with 
sparrows of their profession. 

Labor receives ten per cent of all working business, while 
capital takes ninety per cent. 

In strikes and lockouts capital has ever had the power to 
starve labor into submission. 

Thank God every day for endowing you with patience, 
perseverance and patriotism. 

The erratic irregularity of genius is condoned by the 
greatness of his productions. 

The greed of money getting will blind a man to every 
honorable and lofty purpose. 

A cripple marching in the straight line of duty will out- 
walk the crooked speculator. 

A philosopher may become an atheist, but an atheist 
never becomes a philosopher. 

Thinking too little and talking too much denotes the mind 
of an egotistical blatherskite. 

Those who are covered with the gold and honey of life 
attract the flies of humanity. 

An impulsive and passionate man shortens his life by a 
link every time he gets angry. 

Death and the grave are thoroughly impartial, giving 
eternal Justice to all mankind. 



170 TRUTH 

The butcher and ball player at the ballot box are as power- 
ful as the broker and banker. 

He who will endure and suffer most in silence for the sins 
of others is a great character. 

Energy and matter are combination forces and never lose 
a particle of their birth right. 

Secret corruption, like an internal cancer, must work to 
the surface of final exposure. 

The fantastic charms of passionate beauty win the wisest 
men away from right reason. 

Every encroachment of Executive power is a link in the 
chain of the people's slavery. 

Wisdom words are wafted on the wings of hope and an- 
chored in the harbor of faith. 

The sunshine of the soul is a never ceasing blessing in the 
roughest storms of adversity. 

A good and great thought will ever find winning words 
to wing it through the ages. 

The captains of industry are the devouring anacondas in 
the tangled forest of finance. 

Accepting praise and credit when not deserved is the act 
of a weak and shallow man. 

Money to a brave and good man is but a means to help 
the world to higher progress. 

Truth is perpetual and immortal, clothed with the gar- 
ments of beauty and justice. 

The rough ashler portrait of a poet and philosopher is 
found in his soul-lit writings. 



TRUTH 171 

One hundred years from now you will not be troubled 
about what people say or do. 

The cynic is the crabapple and the persimmon of pam- 
pered, egotistical impudence. 

Money in the hands of a fool is as dangerous as a lighted 
match in the hand of a child. 

It is cheaper to give cash to a poor friend than to lend 
him money he will never pay. 

The most glorious thought of the greatest man is but a 
repetition of ancient wisdom. 

The greatest drama on the world's stage is "Hypocrisy," 
and each mortal plays a part. 

He who pleads poverty as a reason for employment 
injures his chances of success. 

The perfume of flowers and garlic, like good and bad 
characters, is easily discerned. 

Those who have little brain and beauty are secretly 
jealous of those endowments. 

Beauty is a blossom of benevolence basking in the garden 
of innocence and generosity. 

The seed and promises we plant with the best intention 
may never produce any fruit. 

Those who secretly give alms to the poor make cash de- 
posits in the banks of eternity. 

We climb the stairs of success with labor and fatigue, but 
descend with lightning failure. 

The patriotic, political platitudes of politicians are pipe 
dreams of glittering hypocrisy. 



172 TRUTH 

Liberty and tyranny pray alike to an unknown God for 
war, power, gold and victory. 

Golden coin conquers the greatest courts while Justice 
sits in rags at the castle gate. 

Death has no terrors for the mystic mind that leaves its 
grand poetic thoughts behind. 

Intense individual opinion when consolidated into multi- 
tude opinion rules the nation. 

Light eating, drinking, working and sound sleeping 
prolong the life of any person. 

Political deceit and duplicity are as common as grass and 
as uncertain as running water. 

The life and example of a brave and generous man is a 
lesson for the latest posterity. 

Those who draw thought from the inexhaustible reservoir 
of divinity are unconquerable. 

The stomach is the master of man and quickly rebels 
against the tyranny of habit. 

Plastic hypocrisy and delightful duplicity is the play of 
plodding patriotic politicians. 

Mean, envious and unsuccessful people predict the failure 
of their prosperous neighbors. 

A good conscience without religion is far better than 
religion with little conscience. 

Pleasant fairies and fantastic fakers are the familiar 
friends of laughing childhood. 

The genuine Poet teaches the philosophy of hope, beauty, 
bravery, sublimity and truth. 



TRUTH 173 

The public schools are the work shops that turn out the 
sharpest tools of the republic. 

There are more fish caught by silver and golden hooks 
than by lines, nets and traps. 

Some public men are so contemptible that they never rise 
to the dignity of being hated. 

A great and deep literary man who defied everybody's 
sympathy is not great at all. 

He who gives credit to an enemy for honest virtue gives 
evidence of his own greatness. 

He who enforces and executes the law impartially is 
greater than he who makes it. 

British horses, cattle, sheep and hogs occupy the lands 
once owned by Irish farmers. 

Saying nothing at the right time is better than saying 
something at the wrong time. 

Few men of eighty years of age ever die in the home or 
county where they were born. 

In a casket of literary jewels it is easy to pick out the 
solitaire diamonds of thought. 

The consolation of religion to the old, poor and ignorant 
is not understood by the wise. 

The brutality of the ignorant mob is about on a par with 
the refined cruelties of tyrants. 

A great man needs no flattery or bracers to keep him 
erect before the rushing world. 

Compromise between capital and labor is as necessary as 
felicity between man and wife. 



174 TRUTH 

A man often triumphs in adversity while he fails in the 
seductive paths of prosperity. 

Intelligent and continuous work in any branch of business 
will meet with a rich reward. 

Success is the continuous criterion of business ability that 
even one failure may destroy. 

We can read our own minds best by looking through the 
eyes and actions of other men. 

There may be some excuse for being ignorant, but- none 
for being vulgar and insulting. 

Truth has all roads leading to its destination and each 
person selects their own route. 

Spots on the sun and character are more noticeable in the 
full meridian of their splendor. 

The indelible iodine of crime is never washed from the 
hand and heart of the criminal. 

The newspaper is the looking glass of today and the 
thermometer of public opinion. 

He who knows he is wrong and persists in it is a good sub- 
ject for the active undertaker. 

Light shoes, light mind and golden purse dance bravely 
in the most brilliant ball room. 

Wealth, power, dignity, fame and glory are the five 
essentials of earthly happiness. 

We cannot avoid the final fiat of fate, but we can, from 
hour to hour, temper its blow. 

The sneaking and tricky book publisher silently but 
surely drifts into bankruptcy. 



TRUTH 175 

Forwardness or reservation in conversation are each 
dangerous to social conviction. 

The geometrical philosophy of a poem is in proportion 
to its synthetical construction. 

The sunrise and sunset of life have no memory for the 
meridian of vanished splendor. 

Sowing grains of wisdom in the sub-soil of conscience and 
duty produces immortal crops. 

The sabbath bells now ring for frills and collars, but more 
than all for dimes and dollars. 

Keep the snow and ice out of your heart and you will be 
able to defy that on the street. 

Undetected criminals suffer constant punishment by the 
self-imprisonment of the mind. 

The conscience of the public is reflected in the sentiment 
of the honest daily newspaper. 

The daily habit of depending on your own work and truth 
is the greatest help to triumph. 

It is harder to change the real nature of man than to 
make sugar salty or salt sweet. 

Those who constantly think of evil ever find the dark and 
crooked road to its indulgence. 

The proud, plug editor with brief pomposity perches on a 
tripod of tottering temptation. 

When a nation honors loyalty and treason alike, right and 
wrong have lost their meaning. 

Clothes, jewels, palaces and gold cannot change the soul 
and heart of a corrupt person. 



176 TRUTH 

The poor and kind in the right will finally prevail over the 
rich and wicked in the wrong. 

The universal sweep and golden glow of a comet is a mystic 
flash from the eye of Jehovah. 

How the waking mind brings visions of absent loved ones 
into our daily walk and work! 

An independent and lofty character is not appreciated by 
the common herd of mankind. 

Every one has a different road to perfect happiness until 
death rings down the curtain. 

We remember and forget our friends in proportion to 
their prosperity and adversity. 

The equalization of salaries should be adjusted on the 
quality of the work performed. 

Grasp opportunity quickly and tightly by the beard and 
you can twist him into success. 

The soul respect we pay to genius is not measured by the 
praise or pounds we contribute. 

The man who respects and loves his family will have deep 
consideration for his neighbors. 

Counting prospective profits is as uncertain as calculating 
chickens from a setting of eggs. 

Stock and bond speculators are as necessary to commercial 
business as blood to the body. 

Plotting for pelf, plunder and political power puts a patriot 
on his way to the penitentiary. 

The gods and devils since old Homer's time have been the 
passions of sweet love or crime. 



TRUTH 177 

The private or public man who will acknowledge his wrong 
and rectify it is a good citizen. 

BulUon cannot buy contentment of body and mind or 
purchase the prize of true love. 

Preaching purity and piling up pelf and power is the secret 
game of the cunning politician. 

Each individual can make life a curse or a blessing ac- 
cording to thought and action. 

The aristocracy of brain is more brilliant and powerful 
than the aristocracy of bullion. 

Riches, pride and information may give pleasure, but 
never imparted genuine virtue. 

Prohibiting the indulgence of natural desire only adds to 
the flames of secret inclination. 

Few men, like the pendulum of a great clock, swing their 
daily life with even regularity. 

The gods should have given a second life to the good to 
distinguish them from the bad. 

The glowing flash of imagination illumes the unborn 
centuries with immortal words. 

The sneaking guerrillas of literature write behind the nom 
de plume or the editorial "We." 

The great editor and statesman give the people new 
subjects for daily consumption. 

The political wind mills of the Great Republic keep the 
nation from rot and stagnation. 

Like the yellow fever mosquito, envy and suspicion 
poison every object they touch. 



178 TRUTH 

When some people have nothing to do they grumble at 
those who are doing something. 

Many a cashier has been morally poisoned unto death by 
handling other people's money. 

The weak and poor though wise will not be taken into 
society or confidential business. 

Bullion and bullets are the greatest negotiators of peace 
between individuals or nations. 

The beautiful decorations of the soul may be seen in the 
surroundings of the household. 

Those who will not provide umbrellas for prospective 
storms deserve to be drenched. 

When the voters of a Republic are for sale, money, mon- 
archy and tyranny will prevail. 

The secret and silent corruption of the mind and body 
are fatal elements of humanity. 

When virtue is weighed in the balance against glittering 
gold, vice laughs in its sleeve. 

Those who close their thoughts and open their countenance 
will not have much to explain. 

The bullet of the oppressed laborer will some day beat the 
bullion of the wealthy criminal. 

To be envious of another man's brain, bravery and honest 
wealth is torture to little souls. 

If there is a life after death it will certainly be far better 
for the good than the bad man. 

The knock on the door by the Postman is more frequent 
than the knock of Opportunity. 



TRUTH 179 

The prose of Plato, Shakspere, Voltaire and Emerson 
contain lofty poetic philosophy. 

A true friend, like the evergreen, will wear you fresh in 
his heart the whole year round. 

When some characters seem to be retreating they are only 
advancing in another direction. 

An honest man who owes a debt and cannot pay it is 
troubled more than the creditor. 

When the wolf of hunger barks at your door, an axe of 
work will drive away starvation. 

Never allow duties to accumulate, but dispatch them like 
the reaper among ripened grain. 

The constant greed of railroad tyrants is the growing 
cancer of their final destruction. 

Attending strictly to your own daily business will be a 
great example to your neighbor. 

When you have nobody to love and nobody loves you it 
is time to find a friendly sexton. 

Never squirm or squeal when you are hurt and your 
enemy will have no consolation. 

A good person is like a bank of sweet violets, ever perfum- 
ing the surrounding atmosphere. 

An honest> countenance and warm hand are passports 
through the ranks of every land. 

Regret, repentance and reformation are sequent mile- 
stones with the thoughtless man. 

Every violation of conscience, like a broken string in a 
harp, mars its harmonies forever. 



180 TRUTH 

Believing in yourself from day to day will give you con- 
stant strength and right of way. 

The commander in chief of every home should be love, 
truth, confidence and generosity. 

Those who talk the most about giving a square deal are 
often the first to give a foul deal. 

The peasant and king are each on the wing to the myster- 
ious realms of the vast unknown. 

Those who fight and bleed for their country have two 
great reasons for personal glory. 

The daily editorial incubator must not fail to hatch out 
full-fledged chickens of thought. 

The Revolutionary defenders of our liberty were the 
videttes of our victories to-day. 

Since the creation of man the passions of envy, malice and 
greed have never been civilized. 

Women and sheep without reason jump the fence of 
fashion because their leaders do. 

A great thought, like a sound seed of corn, is never lost in 
the blooming fields of humanity. 

The school of bitter experience is the best teacher for 
indifferent and wreckless people. 

He who has ever lived in the valley cannot have lofty 
mountain thought or experience. 

The abuse and cruelty we extend to others often return 
to ourselves in ten -fold measure. 

Some characters, like the pack mules of the Andes, are 
born to bear the burdens of life. 



TRUTH 181 

He who gratuitously attends to another man's business 
will soon have none of his own. 

The more rapid and deadly become implements of war 
the sooner will peace be assured. 

The laws of honor and propriety are more keenly obeyed 
than those on the statute books. 

A great ofifice makes a wise man greater and better, but 
renders a foolish man ridiculous. 

When the clouds are dark and the heart is sad, it's then 
high time to be merry and glad. 

The dust of the prince and the pauper are blown alike by 
the withering winds of centuries. 

How quickly politicians cease to support you when no 
longer in need of your assistance. 

The poetry of practical politeness and punctuality is a 
propelling pattern of prosperity. 

Many of the common crimes of common people may be 
laid at the door of Dame Nature. 

The literary tailors of Tooley street are still cutting and 
sewing their egotistical garments. 

He who wings his thoughts with brilliant feathers of speech 
shall fly over countless centuries. 

It is a keen satisfaction to survive your enemies, but 
sorrowful to outlive your friends. 

When the last acorn falls from the tree of hope we may 
still hope for another tree of life. 

If secret sins and crimes were written on the brow, most 
people would travel in the night. 



182 TRUTH 

The praise or blame we get from others is not as valuable 
as that from our own conscience. 

While solitude is the schoolmaster of genius, conversation 
is the professor of understanding. 

"I'll try" is the hero of endeavor and pushes his banner 
of victory to the heights of fame. 

When wealth, health and character are lost, charity and 
the undertaker are badly needed. 

He who is brave enough to defy caste, wealth, power and 
bigotry will be long remembered. 

There is no thought of any author that has not been 
thought of by some other author. 

True souls that love and labor through all wrong are made 
by the Eternal brave and strong. 

The love songs of the centuries have never ceased to echo 
in the soul-lit aisles of humanity. 

The most beautiful and brilliant lie is but crippled de- 
formity stumbling to destruction. 

He who sticks his nose and fingers into an enemy's political 
potpie must expect to be burned. 

Friends and flowers will decay and die, but the perfimie of 
their existence will linger forever. 

When office holders nominate at national conventions 
the people decapitate at the polls. 

Happiness comes not from wealth or power, but love and 
work through every fleeting hour. 

A man with one satisfied desire is far better off than he 
who has a thousand expectations. 



TRUTH 183 

The annual grain crop of fools is reaped and milled by 
financial and sacerdotal sharpers. 

The severe suppression of the rights of the people 
hastens the explosions of liberty. 

The tyranny and arrogance of wicked capital are only 
matched by that of wicked labor. 

Science and Liberty are gradually and surely prying the 
pulpit preachers out of their jobs. 

Though wrecked in his first venture, a great man may 
finally make a prosperous voyage. 

It is far better to be in contempt of tyrant courts than in 
contempt of conscience and truth. 

There never was a human being born who was more of a 
God than any other human being. 

The thoughtless, rushing, dashing man will stumble in 
time over the cliffs of destruction. 

If a brainless man could be improved into a seedless 
orange it would benefit the world. 

Thumbs and blunt fingers of intellect are not implements 
of expert editors or watchmakers. 

Interest to a pawn broker often exceeds the amount of the 
loan, leaving the principal unpaid. 

Many men meander into mistakes as swiftly as mountain 
streams rush over rocky boulders. 

Poetry is the vidette of philosophy, and philosophy is the 
pilot of patriotism and prosperity. 

Life and death are continuous co-partners and reproduce 
each other with eternal regularity. 



184 TRUTH 

What would mankind do without the annual food pro- 
duction of dear old Mother Earth ? 

Every man may kneel for himself at the altar of his con- 
science in the sabbath of his soul. 

A light load of wealth on the up-grade of life is better than 
a heavy one on the down-grade. 

The brilliant, pushing, soliciting author never fails to float 
his work on the intelligent public. 

Destructive earthquakes, tidal waves, volcanoes, cyclones, 
floods and storms do not last long. 

The wise politician keeps in friendly touch with the house- 
hold subordinates of a great man. 

Telling and acting the bkmt truth may bring you enemies, 
but will never bring you disgrace. 

The higher you climb the mountain of fame and fortune 
the greater will be your final fall. 

The continual play of politics by persistent politicians is 
the secret of their general success. 

A man who backs his bravery with a bullet or a bowie 
knife is a good citizen to let alone. 

The man who was absolutely honorable and unpurchasable 
in all things died many years ago. 

There are more good people than bad ones as the wheat 
in the fields far exceed the briers. 

Knowing the right and pursuing the wrong will quickly 
destroy the proud and the strong. 

The strong and wicked in home, church and state have 
ever oppressed the weak and poor. 



TRUTH - 185 

Greasing the cart wheels of your understanding will 
lighten the load of your troubles. 

The editorial gridiron roasts are not relished by pampered 
politicians or peculating patriots. 

It is well to stoop a little to conquer, but at the same time 
keep a keen knife up your sleeve. 

The blush of the maiden and blush of the flower all sparkle 
and fade in the course of an hour. 

A dollar and a meal in life are better than a milhon words 
of praise to the cold ear of death. 

Liberty regulated by law is the foundation stone of 
American progress and prosperity. 

Far better to feel one day of truth, love and beauty than 
endure a year of remorse and fear. 

The greatest and loftiest men in home, church and state 
get a final fall from earthly power. 

We can honestly respect a great legal office and at the same 
time despise and hate the holder. 

He who freely thinks, talks and acts is the best citizen of 
any State and a terror to tyrants. 

When rehgion and politics are preached from the same 
altar the devil laughs in his sleeve. 

The ripest apples and cherries are out of reach, hke the 
rare gifts of poetry and eloquence. 

A political leader must lead with fresh and novel principles 
if he would retain place and power. 

When you make a conspiracy to rob or murder safely, let 
none perform the job but yourself. 



186 TRUTH 

Great internal thought knocks at the front door of the 
soul for outlet to successful action. 

Every nation has the right to say and do what is best for 
its personal, political preservation. 

Hunger is the greatest leveler of pride and works the 
greatest instrument of recuperation. 

The cold formality of official and social aristocracy freezes 
the benevolent rills of the heart. 

Could the wisdom in age be our companion in youth how 
many mistakes might be avoided. 

The barking of a dog at the moon does not disturb the 
equanimity of the queen of night. 

Political platforms are only clap-trap phrases to hide the 
real meaning of political hypocrites. 

The financial prosperity of an actor, author or politician 
depends on constant advertisement. 

The complaining, cantankerous, quarrelsome citizen is 
ever a nuisance in any community. 

A dependent daughter on the golden skirts of the great 
is a miserable microbe of humanity. 

Do not flatter yourself a moment with the thought that 
grim death will not pay you a call ! 

Charity is the central sun of generous humanity, and the 
morning star of illuminated virtue. 

Blowing the sparks of hate in the ashes of memory may 
resurrect another fire of desolation. 

Only a statesman can smooth out the lumpy wrinkles 
from the cloth of party contention. 



TRUTH 187 

The buds of early affection are often nipped by the bitter 
frosts of suspicion and indifference. 

Putting words and ideas in the mouth of a dead philosopher 
is as cowardly as kicking a corpse. 

The faults and warts on the face of a friend should not be 
made the subject of conversation. 

The good lord, good devil individual in home, church and 
state is a most exasperating fraud. 

A book of witty epigrams is as brilliant as a shower of 
blazing meteors in a midnight sky. 

Doing your full duty from day to day in any business of 
life will give you sure employment. 

A man who is constantly calling other men liars is an 
impudent and natural liar himself. 

The sweet breads of legislation are given to the rich while 
soup bones are thrown to the poof. 

A man can think and tell and act a flattering lie so long 
that he will believe it to be true. 

The cost and value of any article, from brains to beef, is a 
sliding scale of uncertain quantity. 

Independence, sincerity and patriotism are the three 
best elements of the daily editorial. 

A quick workman with a dull axe will do more work than 
a lazy workman with a sharp axe. 

Political friendship is a Dolly Varden Coquette, changing 
her lovers as quickly as her dress. 

Prejudice, envy and hate trail on the track of truth, but 
never injure this co-partner of time. 



188 TRUTH 

When the man knocks hard and loud at the front door of 
opportunity he generally gets a job. 

Truth may be tortured into a thousand different forms and 
colors, but it still remains the truth. 

The sharpest human axe is polished out of existence on 
the imperishable grindstone of time. 

Never listen to suspicion, scandal, vulgarity and abuse 
from any man against another man. 

The fanaticism of temperance and holy virtue runs into 
cruelty and tyranny of government. 

The ashes of hope on the hearthstone of memory may 
still contain a spark of illumination. 

It is a very difficult undertaking for any man to become 
thoroughly acquainted with himself ! 

Count that day lost if no good word or deed from out thy 
soul and heart and hand proceed. 

The Standard oil, standard meat and standard steal are 
the triple tyrants of the Republic. 

The remembrance of past pride and golden fortune brings 
a shiver of regret to present misery. 

The nature of a common hypocrite is as unchangeable as 
the sneaking sinuosities of a hyena. 

Become an expert in one line of practical business and 
prosperity will perch on your porch. 

How little the rushing, selfish world cares about anything 
but its own sports and speculations. 

Those who continually accept favors and charity destroy 
their self-respect and self-reliance. 



TRUTH 189 

The author huckster who sells his literary wares direct to 
the public is the bravest of his tribe. 

Offensive partisanship is not offensive if you secretly 
favor the administration candidate. 

When your capacity to entertain has departed your 
former friends follow the same road. 

God must love justice and equality, as he gives to all alike 
heat, cold, rain, snow and sunshine. 

The Jubilee of the people rising from the ashes of adversity 
is the most glorious sight in nature. 

Imperial selfishness, withdrawing from the world, gets 
the sneer and the laugh of derision. 

Martin Luther thanked God that he had made him a poor 
man, but there was only one Luther. 

The common people were seemingly made for the use of 
politicians and cunning corporations. 

The gormandizer of bread and meat is often more in- 
temperate than the whiskey drinker. 

The caw of the crow and the song of the robin awake 
the ploughman of the vales and hills. 

The world believes in a long line of historical lies that 
answers for all the purpose of truth ! 

Virtue is as common as light, air and grass, extending her 
favors to all who court her benefits. 

Bearing the galling yoke of difficulties in youth prepares 
us in old age to be modest in success. 

When a man knows himself to be bankrupt in morality, 
he soon becomes bankrupt in money. 



190 TRUTH 

A cunning politician in power who feels his mediocrity 
will evade contact with an able man. 

A nation cannot rise higher or sink lower than the greatest 
and worst of its individual citizens. 

So-called civilized nations war against each other and kill 
millions of men for the glory of God ! 

A guilty man, though rich, who is forced to live with 
himself, is a most miserable creature. 

A fool cannot answer a wise question any quicker than a 
wise man can answer a fool question. 

A bad public man will destroy a good measure while a 
good man will mend a bad measure. 

A successful conspiracy launches a new party or nation, 
and wipes out the odium of treason. 

The soul and sun are ever in perpetual motion, infusing 
life into all things in the universe. 

Show us the man who prefers glory to gold and we will 
show you a real philosopher or poet. 

Hucksters of thought and vegetables must mingle daily 
with the people to sell their wares. 

A sensible, conservative, honest man is very seldom 
called upon to apologize for his acts. 

Disappointment and defeat conquer the crowd, but the 
truly brave man battles on to death. 

The greatest men, like the tallest trees, are hit by the 
storms and lightnings of destruction. 

The greed and tyranny of criminal corporations are the 
primary cause of strikes and riots. 



TRUTH 191 

The true philosopher has never engaged in the wild, 
sordid scramble for wealth or power. 

The Panama Canal is the most pyramidal and colossal 
public undertaking ever encountered. 

Great fame sits like a mourner on a mountain top wrapped 
in the glittering garb of eternal snow. 

The pleasures of old age are only found in happy mental 
contemplation and literary ambition. 

There is no appeal from the decision of the Grand Jury of 
the people at the national ballot box. 

He who shoulders the sins and burdens of another is a 
generous-hearted fool or philosopher. 

The brave heretic is the hero of reason and the slayer of 
ignorance and fanatical imagination. 

The grafting propensity of some people is as persistent as 
the midnight motions of a mosquito. 

Small farms carefully cultivated by Caucasians will con- 
tinue the glory of the great Republic. 

The snarl and sneer on the countenance of some putrid 
people is disgusting as a slimy snake. 

He who offers a bribe to a boodle legislator should be the 
first to feel the cell of a penitentiary. 

Passion will kill the greatest character, as the lightning 
destroys the strongest earthly object. 

Any shrewd man with a million of dollars can become a 
member of the United States Senate. 

The philosopher who coins wisdom proverbs finds im- 
mortality in the memory of mankind. 



192 TRUTH 

Fancy and financial success are more congenial com- 
panions than hard labor and poverty. 

Tattered clothes betray the smallest vices, while rich robes 
conceal and protect the worst crimes. 

An ignorant, vicious and lying enemy should receive the 
treatment administered to a mad dog. 

Executive, legislative and judicial tyranny should be 
guillotined for the glory of the people ! 

Congress is the latest expression of the conscience of the 
people and is supreme in this republic. 

Beware of the arrogant fellow with a high-push hand 
shake, who is at heart a fool or fraud. 

All the complimentary words and varnish in the world 
will not emblazon or cover a failure. 

A corrupt corporation President, like the Ant Eater, in- 
cludes numerous inside stock holders ! 

Moral epigrams, enmeshed in eloquent and harmonious 
words, are the diamonds of literature. 

The politician is the chameleon of humanity changing 
his coat and color with every contact. 

Disfranchising an American citizen is the crudest crime 
in the calendar of political corruption. 

Those who violate moral and economic laws secretly or 
openly suffer the penalty of the fraud. 

God alone knows if we exist beyond the grave, and never 
yet has told a pauper, prince or slave ! 

Many men arrogate to themselves all the virtues and to 
the balance of mankind all the vices. 



TRUTH 193 

How many churches in the world would open their doors 
if there was no pay for the preachers? 

He who can win without exultation and lose without 
depression is a matchless philosopher. 

Your best introduction is a bright eye, good features, a 
pleasant voice and fine suit of clothes. 

Believing in everything you see, hear and feel, without 
investigation, generates future failure. 

We still may triumph through the ambient air when we 
are armed with the dagger of despair. 

Like crying children we turn to Mother Earth for food and 
shelter and in her bosom find relief. 

The man who mobs the mob with the fearless force of 
eloquence is monarch of the occasion. 

Erecting castles of hope on the future conduct of another 
is as baseless as the vision of a dream. 

An honest party man is a better citizen than a kicking 
mugwump of independent arrogance. 

The light houses on the stormy shores of the soul are daily 
replenished by the oil of Omnipotence. 

An ambitious, political, financial boss has no real following 
but that purchased by his secret cash. 

Every rich and ambitious politician hires a Press Bureau 
to flatter and laud his little greatness. 

In descending the sunset slopes of old age our movement 
is accelerated by doubt and remorse. 

In wave after wave, both early, long, and late, human 
creatures break upon the rocks of fate. 



194 TRUTH 

An ignorant, vicious and lying enemy should receive the 
treatment administered to a mad dog. 

The gods destroy those who have reached the acme of 
fortune and build up those in poverty. 

A philosopher who eats with his knife in the presence of 
"society scrubs" is set down as a fool. 

One man who thinks and expresses a great thought is 
worth a billion of beefy bull whackers. 

Victorious today and vanquished tomorrow run ever 
through the meshes of joy and sorrow. 

It is as natural for some people to lie and steal as a swan 
to swim or a swallow to sail in the air. 

Do not sigh or weep for the losses of yesterday, but plan 
at once for the prosperity of tomorrow. 

The grief of the rich heir on the surface is as deep and 
broad as the property of the deceased. 

When your money and character are gone, the undertaker 
and sexton will be your best friends. 

Some villainous characters go through the world without 
censure because they are not observed. 

A cheerful morning greeting by the boss brings a flash of 
sunshine to his working subordinates. 

The invisible lightning stroke of paralysis of head or heart 
knocks the greatest mortal to oblivion. 

The greatest secret office seekers are those who continually 
tell the public they do not want office. 

He who kills one is a murderer, but he who kills ten 
thousand or a million of men is a hero. 



TRUTH 195 

The poorest laborer may rest at ease after honest work 
if his desires do not outrun his dollars. 

A positive-negative man has as much influence in pohtical 
Hfe as a mouse in a convention of cats. 

Individuals and states never erect a monument to any 
of their infamous and treasonable acts. 

It is not egotism or vanity when a man states the exact 
truth about his personal achievements. 

The loss of true love and respect is the greatest misfortune 
that can befall any wise human being. 

The few educated sharpers of mankind live upon the 
ignorance and labor of their neighbors. 

Miserable must be the person whose pleasure depends 
upon the action of fashionable society. 

Dressing and living for the eye and admiration of others 
is a sure sign of a vain and weak mind. 

The passing of a peevish President is as pleasing to the 
people as the passing of a stormy day. 

Baptism, confession and confirmation are only polished 
links in the chain of sacerdotal slavery. 

Where beauty, biscuits and beef-steak enthrill the break- 
fast table contentment reigns supreme. 

Governments are not destroyed by the laboring poor, but 
by the greedy, powerful, criminal rich. 

The world owes a daily debt of intellectual gratitude to 
Homer, Plato, Christ and Shakespeare. 

We can look bravely and serenely at the troubles of 
another, but flinch quickly at our own. 



196 TRUTH 

The poor and the weak are pushed to the wall while the 
rich and strong shine br.;ve at the ball. 

He who retains the confidence and companions of a 
scoundrel will soon become one himself. 

If we could coin expectation into realization the list of 
millionaires would be increased daily. 

The person equipped by nature with common sense has a 
diploma that no university can bestow. 

Bribery destroyed the oratorical Demosthenes and greed 
for gold blackened his eloquent name. 

A great accumulation of knowledge and gold will place 
any person in the highest station of life. 

Secret fraud and crime, like the cancer, must sooner or 
later break out and expose the criminal. 

Inordinate and insulting egotism in any private or public 
person is the worst feature of humanity. 

We can never find in any situation the contentment that 
has taken flight from the heart and soul. 

The rain, frost and snows of adversity can be utilized by 
the brave for the sunshine of prosperity. 

The man who can crowd the work of two business days 
into one should receive a double salary. 

Trying to discover what we do not know in nature is better 
than halting at seeming impossibilities. 

News paragraphs, like the morning glory, die in a day, 
but philosophic paragraphs live forever. 

The greatest writers have been the greatest plagiarists — • 
Virgil, Goethe and Shakespeare leading. 



TRUTH 197 

You cannot prosper without the friendship and assistance 
of the world, but it can do without you. 

Every good and great man grows greater as the sunset of 
his years gild the glory of his lofty soul. 

Official title of nobility does not grant nobihty of character 
or make a royal scoundrel a gentleman. 

Public opinion is as variable as the March wind and far 
more chilling to the defeated candidate. 

Many men join churches, clubs, lodges and parties to 
secretly promote their personal interest. 

The first crack and leak in the dam of your integrity will 
soon open the flood gates of destruction. 

The promises and pounds we receive in prosperity will 
quickly vanish in the day of adversity. 

A politician who proposes to sit on two stools of policy 
will finally find himself flat on the floor. 

A man will deny his age for the sake of business ambition, 
while a woman will for vanity and love. 

Those who inherit the sunshine of the soul can dispel the 
clouds and storms of doubt and defeat. 

The business man who succeeds by secret plots and cheat- 
ing deals will fail by the same tricks. 

The good shepherd will eat mutton with great relish and 
yet kill a wolf for doing the same thing. 

It requires deep thought and action to conmiand complete- 
ly a herd of cattle and regiment of men. 

Little, mediocre men are ever blustering to make up by 
surface force what they lack by nature. 



198 TRUTH 

Epigrams and maxims are nuggets of knowledge, entering 
the brain like lightning through an oak. 

The "Dred Scott" decision of the United States Supreme 
Court was the vidette of the rebellion ! 

District Attorneys are often secretly manipulated to relieve 
rich criminals and prosecute poor ones. 

A spark of love-lit fire in the ashes of remembrance may be 
blown into a conflagration of affection. 

There's nothing now said and written that has not been 
said and written a billion times before. 

The lash of afiliction is the ladder upon which wise men 
climb to heights of power and pleasure. 

When you cease to care for yourself and your daily con- 
duct, the world will second your neglect. 

The mutual confidence of husband and wife is the brightest 
jewel in the household of human felicity. 

Thinking, looking and feeling for the bright side of life will 
usher you into pleasure and prosperity. 

The professions in a political platform are as frail as the 
proverbial pie-crust, made to be broken. 

A good cause conquers with a small force while a bad cause 
is defeated with millions in its defense. 

Affliction makes a good man better and brighter, as out of 
darkest storms come peace and sunshine. 

The person who is ever boasting of dead ancestors has 
nothing more to commend him to society. 

Some people try to find work as if they were playing hide 
and seek, ever dodging the main object. 



TRUTH 199 

The most luxurious victuals feed the fattest microbes in 
the fairest bodies for future graveyards. 

Editors, authors and preachers are the philosophic trip 
hammers in the rolling mills of mankind. 

Fortune may strip us bare of wealth, power and reputation, 
but cannot deprive us of a master mind. 

The scorn and contempt of honest people for rich criminals 
is a constant imprisonment to the guilty. 

A character individual does not need a club, lodge cr 
society to dignify his merit and fame. 

The mind of man, like the Alpine peaks, shines supreme 
over the foot hills of material mediocrity. 

Gold may gild the licentiousness of society flyers, but they 
are secretly despised by decent citizens. 

He who wings his thoughts with the brilliant feathers of 
speech shall fly over countless centuries. 

What if the whole world forgets thee, God is ever nigh to 
receive the last sigh of thy parting soul. 

The practical politician is a kaleidoscope of public opinion, 
and while pretending to lead is ever led. 

Evil is the worst companion you can have in adversity, 
for hope never enters its dark chambers. 

If you have no pence or pounds give the unfortunate poor 
at least encouragement and not censure. 

He who can endure undeserved odium for a season will 
triumph over cowardly scandal mongers. 

Those who have never known poverty cannot appreciate 
the misery of their unfortunate brothers. 



200 TRUTH 

He who attends strictly to the conduct of his daily living 
need not be alarmed at his sudden dying. 

An honest, good and prosperous man, who has no pride 
of ancestry, may well be proud of himself. 

Do your talk with cheerful glee and the master mechanic 
or proprietor will see to your promotion. 

How often the brave eat the weeds and thorns of grief 
while bearing sugar and bread for others. 

Your merit may not be recognized at once, but a steadfast 
energy never fails to bring good results. 

In business matters come at once to the stump of conver- 
sation and cut into the timber of interest. 

In the circumlocution of business conversation the wise 
man can soon detect the sneak and fraud. 

Business without brain and bullion will fall as surely as 
the noon time-ball of the war department. 

Oliver Cromwell was the greatest fanatic, tyrant, robber 
and murderer of the seventeenth century. 

The political opinion of a man in public office and interested 
in continuous salary is of no consequence. 

Out of labor, sacrifice, prayer and penance comes the 
sweet happiness of reflection and charity. 

Giving up a certain small salary for an uncertain large 
salary does not display practical wisdom. 

Many national politicians get the unanimous cheers of 
their fellow citizens, but not their votes. 

If the tears of sorrow were fashioned into diamonds of 
joy we would be blessed beyond measure. 



TRUTH 201 

There is no action in human Ufe without consequence, and 
no consequence without pain or pleasure. 

Though the clouds be dark and threatening, the silver 
lining of your soul will brush them away. 

Blot out the vanity, folly, greed and crimes of mankind 
and there would be very little history left. 

The avaricious man, like Mount Aetna, bears within him- 
self the fire and brimstone of destruction. 

The guilty rich are the worst citizens of any government 
and are only fit for fertilizing graveyards. 

The wildest boys and girls make the best men and women 
when managed with kindness and reason. 

Do not arrogantly demand your rights unless you are in 
a position to command and enforce them. 

When spleen, wrath and hate take possession of your 
n)ind-mansion, virtue and love move out. 

It requires a great social artist to tell a lie in such an 
eloquent manner as to pass for the truth. 

Pedigree and riches will not make a man great without 
the lofty aspiration of soul independence. 

It is better to build a chicken coop, dog house or log cabin, 
than to tear down a city, state or nation. 

Every appointment by any state, city or national Execu- 
tive makes ten or more disappointments. 

The public exchange of liar, coward and crook between 
politicians is disgusting to decent citizens. 

The best way to deal with a dressed-up arrogant fellow is 
to be perfectly indifferent to his presence. 



202 TRUTH 

Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln were the 
Big Four Presidents of the United States. 

When the rich briber is imprisoned with the pohtical 
boodler there will be some justice in law. 

When the mind and the body of man kick against each 
other, disease and death umpires the case. 

The pride of family, character and intellect leads any man 
into the performance of illustrious deeds. 

The virtuous, independent, generous, patriotic editor is 
the best daily preacher in the republic. 

Were it not for trouble and misfortune we could not have 
the sweet consolation of conquering them. 

When men constantly decline what they are not offered 
they willingly accept when it materializes. 

It is better to breakfast on a rasher of bacon and chunk 
of bread than run in debt for a big dinner. 

The dead limbs of ancient religion must be cut off the 
modern trunk of philosophy and science. 

A hog in office commands attention, but outside he 
wobbles to the slaughter house of failure. 

He who can reason and act correctly from the unexpected 
incidents of daily life is a true philosopher. 

The beautiful lies chiseled on beautiful monuments is 
only the evidence of beautiful forgiveness ! 

The Jew is still used as the scape-goat of the nations for the 
greed and tyranny of so-called Christians. 

When you hit a wrong, strike with a sledge of thought and 
crack the crown of ignorance and tyranny. 



TRUTH 203 

Tyranny and slavery are very bad habits and should be 
extirpated from the heart and soul of man. 

A poHtical house divided against itself cannot stand any 
longer than the faith of a family mansion. 

A person of noble and innocent instincts never suspects 
the mean maneuvres of sneaking mankind. 

The pleasure we feel for sledding down hill on the glistening 
ice and snow pays us for walking up again. 

The popularity of an Executive wanes in proportion to the 
remains of official favors he has to bestow. 

The honest, good, brave and beautiful are largely in the 
majority in the various ranks of humanity. 

Great novel writers have a deep vein of poetry running 
through their eloquent and pathetic prose. 

The laborer who kicks against unjust capital today may 
be the capitalist tomorrow who is kicked. 

When foreign sugar interferes with domestic sugar, the 
financial sugar of trust legislation prevails. 

Frequent popular elections are ever best for the common 
people to maintain their rights of freedom. 

The coin of thought uttered from the mint of genius is a 
more lasting currency than silver and gold. 

The loss of gold, character and friends is not fully ap- 
preciated until they have departed forever. 

A law is not a practical law until the supreme court of the 
United States pronounces it constitutional. 

The innate virtue and prosperity of the home is the real 
guarantee of the perpetuity of government. 



204 TRUTH 

A sneak and a robber, like the prowling fox or tiger, are 
destined for the trap and bullet of justice. 

To be cheated in business by a religious man does not par- 
ticularly soften the sorrow of the victim. 

The false and fantastic play of human hypocrisy is continu- 
ous as the lapping waves on the sea shore. 

We could never see the good in erecting envy, jealousy, 
malice, greed, poison, robbery and murder. 

Head-long pride and bounding ambition butt against the 
granite walls of insurmountable opposition. 

The worm of a whiskey still is not as complicated as the 
stomach and intestines of meandering man. 

The only true freeman is he who will express his soul 
thoughts without policy, duplicity or fear. 

The systematic, mathematic man will win more praise and 
prizes than a glinting, brilliant character. 

Ignorance, carelessness, laziness and over-feeding shorten 
the mental and physical life of humanity. 

When the sincerity and honesty of the soul and heart take 
flight the individual is like an empty tomb. 

Jumping into trouble and quarrel is as natural to school 
boys as the flitting fights of street sparrows. 

There can be no true, good and lasting literature without 
a true and talented man behind the pen. 

A good dog with a bad name, and a bad dog with a good 
name, are unfortunately nothing but dogs. 

When we slip on the down grade of adversity the road 
seems to be already greased for our flight. 



TRUTH 205 

True Christianity and charity should conquer the worid 
with their lessons of kindness and equality. 

The political demagogue feeds upon the ignorance and 
bigotry of the foolish masses of mankind. 

"Offensive partisanship" is only so in subordinates, the 
President and cabinet clerks being immune ! 

Christ never demanded pew-rent, Peter pence, pounds or 
dollars from his poor and needy followers. 

Be honest and just to your employer, working in the 
open, and he will not fail to find your value. 

Genius feels the necessity of isolation to impulsively 
hatch out problems of seeming impossibility. 

He who talks by the hour and says nothing is like the 
idle wind humming through a weather vane. 

The mystic magician of spiritual words weaves the web 
of fanaticism around the victims of religion. 

How little we think of the pathetic ruins of the mind 
tottering today in the asylums of the world. 

He who gives up the spirituality of his soul for material 
things is lost to all true love and happiness. 

The plutocracy of pride and pelf permeates the props of 
the nation and rots the ribs of the republic. 

Amendments to existing laws are impulsively proposed 
before the original law is enforced or tested. 

The impudence, audacity and tyranny of wealth and power 
have been the constant scourge of mankind. 

The inborn principle of selfishness and greed continually 
encroaches on the other elements of nature. 



206 TRUTH 

A grain of corn, wheat and rice are more valuable to 
mankind than all the diamonds of the mine. 

A towering, triumphant man is a torture to the envious, 
but a glory to the patriot and philosopher. 

Bread, clothes and shelter to the living Poet would be 
more sensible than a monument after death. 

Conscience is the court of last resort where the hell of 
crime or the heaven of virtue predominates. 

The saint and the sinner sit in the block house of the soul 
and switch us ofT to salv^ation or destruction. 

Never mention or boast of your aches, pains, pounds or 
purple pride and the listener will be happier. 

The successful battles of a nation are the inextinguishable 
light houses of its present and future glory. 

The revelation of religion is but the cunning manipulation 
of man for his social and financial interest. 

Love of philosophy keeps us at home while love of admira- 
tion urges us to the reception and banquet. 

Grieving for the mistakes and misfortunes of the past is a 
poor way to secure prosperity for the future. 

A sharp-pointed aphorism is a javelin of shining thought, 
and never fails to hit the bull's eye of truth. 

The cheese-paring economy of a nation in its army and 
navy ever proves an expensive experiment. 

The greater the difficulties we encounter in pursuing 
success the greater will be our final triumph. 

On the mantelpiece of our mind there are idols of bad 
habit that should be broken every morning. 



TRUTH 207 

Every man may be the architect of his fortune, but he is 
first fashioned by the Divine Draughtsman. 

The individual robber and murderer can never compete 
with the desperation of the pubhc criminal! 

The best way to get rid of a fool friend is to lend him a 
dollar that he promises to pay "tomorrow." 

The Fates throw us into adversity and lift us into victory 
with the indifference of a smiling coquette. 

When we write what we think and not what other people 
think, we have some chance for future fame. 

Better go down to honorable defeat with old friends in 
battle, than rise by treachery with new ones. 

The race of men and mice alike meander in monotonous 
rain to the dark tenting grounds of oblivion. 

Books marshalled on shelves, in military precision, are 
the nucleus of an army of victorious wisdom. 

When the best things we expect turn out bad and the 
worst turn best, there is instant consolation. 

Doing good without design and getting credit for it by 
accident is a real source of personal pleasure. 

The favor of popes, princes and presidents is a perishable 
asset in the store house of personal economy. 

Flattering praise by preachers over the cold, dead ears of 
coffined clay should have been given in life. 

The seven o'clock morning merchant will be an hour 
ahead in cash of his eight o'clock competitor. 

The comfort of a pipe and a mug of ale with an old friend 
cannot be measured by the bigot and fanatic. 



208 TRUTH 

When the body slumbers the soul awakens and revels 
in the flowery uplands of delicious dreams. 

The mind and body of mankind are created unequal, live 
and love unequal, and dare and die unequal. 

Can you place your hand on your heart and truthfully 
swear that you never envied a human being? 

He who can weigh his words and measure his actions with 
mathematical precision is master of victory. 

The tyrant in home, church and state should be relegated 
to the cold embrace of the nearest graveyard. 

Those who discover their secret vices and root them 
out of their souls become celestial gardeners. 

The dead-head pass passengers will hereafter have to wait 
for on head and dead head railroad collisions. 

Sententious and epigrammatic thought flashes through the 
mind like a glistening arrow through the air. 

The grass will grow greener and the flowers will grow 
brighter over the grave of the generous giver. 

We inherit the virtues and vices of our ancestors in pro- 
portion to our environments and education. 

Those who cannot find peace and happiness in their own 
mind and body cannot expect it elsewhere. 

The honest man is never afraid of being caught, and 
works, sleeps and dies in blissful innocence. 

The man who has lost all sense of pride and shame is 
merely a meandering wild beast of humanity. 

The best prayers for morning, noon and night are loving 
words and acts for your family and friends. 



TRUTH 209 

The sun, moon, planets and stars are light houses of truth, 
pointing us to the heaven of Omnipotence. 

The person who cannot whistle, sing and laugh is ever 
jealous of the happy-go-lucky wit who can. 

Calm weather to a tempest-tossed mariner is as sweet as 
the voice and purse of a friend in adversity. 

The personal power of a President is greatly enhanced 
by his official power, and the one is the other. 

Religion is the first bom child of imagination conceived 
and uttered from the soaring soul of the poet. 

He who earns his bread by the sweat of another person's 
brow has no regard for the biblical injunction. 

The road makers of new thought and invention are the 
greatest pioneers in the highway of progress. 

The poet is a palace builder, peopling his soul structures 
with the fantastic fairies of celestial harmony. 

When interest and dividends are not earned on corporation 
bonds and stock, loss and bankruptcy prevail. 

A bottle of wine and a terrapin stew have often induced 
the most cautious to reveal important secrets. 

The small minority of brain and energy ever control the 
great majority of human beef and ignorance. 

The poet paints in passionate words the purple colors of 
his soul on the glowing canvas of imagination. 

- Politicians in every land and clime are bribed to support 
the reigning administration by gold or office. 

Poets are the pioneers of everlasting truth and dare to 
think what they say and say what they think. 



210 TRUTH 

Religious agents for the Insurance Company of God are 
but financial fakers for their material support. 

The sneak, hypocrite, coward, bigot and liar are a quin- 
tette litter of sin from the bitch of humanity. 

Virtue varies not with the voice of censure or praise, but 
holds truth as the polar star of its philosophy. 

Be prosperous, independent, and lofty and you will heap 
hot coals on the head of your sneaking enemy. 

The best way to sympathize with a friend's total failure 
is to silently hand him a hundred-dollar bill. 

Woman nourishes us in youth, gives us pleasure in man- 
hood and relieves and comforts us in old age. 

Conquerors, creeds and crowns pass away like the clouds, 
leaving behind the truth of the four seasons. 

We find some encouragement and consolation in seeing 
people who are more miserable than ourselves. 

The present day should be the best day, for the past is 
unchangeable and the future cannot be divined. 

The intensity and brilliancy of the mind masters the 
failings of the body and prolongs lingering life. 

The greatest victories of the world have been gained by 
heroic men of truthful and practical egotism. 

To break the back of a bad habit and substitute a good 
one requires constant care and heroic courage. 

A heaven of reward and hell of punishment seem to be a 
necessary teaching for the weak and ignorant. 

Daily mental, moral and physical exercise is absolutely 
necessary to health, happiness and prosperity. 



TRUTH 211 

Only ideal and romantic writers live in the heaven of 
literature, prose plugs dying with materialism. 

The good and great daily editor furnishes the pure food 
of thought for the working masses of mankind. 

The President has no real friends, only those in office and 
those who expect office, temporary substitutes. 

The pure in heart perfume the paths of pleasure and 
gild the gloom that darkens the voiceless grave. 

He who pays the highest price for secret corporation trans- 
actions can control any financial stock market. 

When the courts are secretly leagued with tyrant wealth, 
the common people are on the verge of slavery. 

Show me persons who wear the secrets of their hearts on 
their sleeves and I will show you innocent fools. 

Measures are ever superior to men who truckle to gain 
temporary success and lose a lasting triumph. 

Rotten seed never produces a good crop no more than bad 
manners and morals produce a grand character. 

Poverty, ignorance and crime must be legally prohibited 
from producing children to disgrace civilization. 

Writers who have nothing to say require columns, pages 
and chapters to explain what they don't know. 

A rich man who forgets the friends of his youth and 
poverty will have no friends but those he buys. 

Keep your secrets and troubles to yourself and look 
prosperous and your enemies will gnaw the file. 

The purity, nobility and innocence of the heart and soul 
are badly exchanged for greed, doubt and guilt. 



212 TRUTH 

The reign of popes, princes, priests and preachers is pro- 
longed by the ignorance of the common people. 

The vicarious sacrifice of one person for the sins of another 
is not the true principle of justice and equality. 

Chastise the truant good with reason and they will im- 
prove, but the bad grow worse by punishment. 

If we know as little after death as we did before birth, there 
is no reason to be alarmed for any consequence. 

Many great men have had little conscience when it inter- 
fered with their personal and political ambition. 

Social ostracism for political reasons can be played by 
the minority as well as the majority pretenders. 

Poets, patriots and philosophers are remembered down 
the ages when kings and dynasties are forgotten. 

Can anybody tell what the so-called Redeemer of mankind 
redeemed when everybody is in pawn to death? 

Wealth may secure personal ease and luxury, but cannot 
command respect unless accompanied by virtue. 

A true philosopher is never knocked from his pivot of 
principle by the peevish prejudice of the people. 

As we forget others we will be forgotten, each daily and 
yearly wave of time covering up its predecessor. 

Those who profess to despise money are generally indi- 
viduals who have no financial capacity to get it. 

The man who submits his principles for the solution of 
opposite parties will have no principle in the end. 

To be continually blessed with health, wealth, wisdom 
and love is the lot of very few human creatures. 



TRUTH 213 

Sordid, cynical souls have no sense of poetry, and are 
jealous of those inspired by the Magic Muses. 

The rainbow of hope spanning the sensitive soul leaves a 
lingering light on the darkest earthly highway. 

How indifferent and listless we are to the moans of mis- 
fortune until they echo in our own household! 

When the bibles of the globe fail to furnish text for sermons 
this wisdom volume will supply the deficiency. 

Greed, selfishness and egotism are the three strong links 
in the chain of vaulting ambition and tyranny. 

The marvelous mystic and mechanical inventions of man 
are only in the primer of his future discoveries. 

To get a business dollar out of some citizens is as difficult 
as the work of a Dentist in extracting teeth. 

The only difference between individual murderers and 
war kings is the bloody magnitude of the crime. 

The riches of a coward and a fraud only make him more 
conspicuous in the eye of contempt and disgust. 

The wise and the foolish, the small and the great will be 
remembered alike ten thousand years from now ! 

Tyrannical politicians who attempt to eliminate other 
politicians are frequently eliminated themselves. 

A salad of thought with a variety of vegetable and veal 
voracity aids the digestion of delicious delusion. 

An apt phrase of contempt and pungent philosophy will 
puncture the bloated bladder of pelf politicians. 

The selfish, corrupt and tyrannical politician is the prowl- 
ing tiger of a republic and should be destroyed. 



214 TRUTH 

The virtuous maxims of many rulers are uttered to fool 
the people, and while talking good they do evil. 

He who tries to act on everybody's opinion will have no 
opinion of his own, and is worthless as a leader. 

Quoting the wisdom of dead philosophers and patriots 
strengthens the cracking arches of government. 

The good Lord, good Devil, independent political editor 
is a criss-cross between a mermaid and a jackass. 

There are many civil government officers who are only 
rooting lice on the blistered back of the republic. 

When a politician preaches platitudes to the people he 
only punctuates the philosophy of his pretence. 

Fear of punishment here or hereafter causes many million- 
aires to contribute to charity or public utility. 

The self-concentrated, lofty egotism of Abraham Lincoln 
was wrapped up in his immortal common sense. 

Preaching the "square deal" and dealing the foul deal is 
the daily doing of pelf and platitude politicians. 

We constantly hug the ghosts of lost hopes and try to 
imagine the products of loved failures a success. 

Any citizen who tries to disfranchise another citizen, in 
state or nation, is a tyrant enemy of his country. 

The labor union and capital union might pool their passion, 
and call in reason to settle strikes and lock-outs. 

He who concentrates the concentrated thought of others 
is more epigrammatic than the original composer. 

The go-between, "mutual friend," double dealer and 
diplomatic deceiver must be a miserable creature. 



TRUTH 215 

Decency is the law of instinctive nature and pervades the 
heart and soul of every true gentleman and lady. 

One blast of scandal dynamite has destroyed the reputa- 
tion in an hour that required fifty years to build. 

What a lonesome Republic this would be without the 
daily message or proclamation of the President! 

The world is marching forward in its majesty and might 
to conquer for the ages all the principles of right. 

Why God or civilization allow torturing tyrants to rule 
anywhere is a mysterious conundrum to mankind. 

The constantly moving body attracts the greatest atten- 
tion and in time suffers the greatest destruction. 

A nation without truth, love, patriotism and unity among 
its own citizens is on the high road to destruction. 

Many men betray their secret of wealth by talking too 
much, like the cackling hen when she lays an egg. 

Stormy weather has no respect for the sailor, milkman, 
breadman, newsboy, letter-carrier or policeman. 

From the earliest ages the rank injustice and terrible 
tyranny of monarchy have invited assassination. 

Mark Twain has been marking time to the tune of royalty, 
and hurling humor at the obtuse British bull-dog. 

Corporation hunters use impenetrable lawyers as "decoy 
ducks" to catch the fool flock of flying humanity. 

Secret chicanery, fraud and tyranny eat their way into 
the public view like the horrible sores of cancer. 

Poison weeds grow quick and healthy without care, while 
grain, fruit and flowers need constant cultivation. 



216 TRUTH 

The habit of cultivating the acquaintance of truth will 
make you more polite and generous to the world. 

Never abruptly rush into a business man's presence when 
he is diligently engaged at work or conversation. 

Instead of giving sympathy and advice to a fallen man or 
woman, hand them on the quiet a ten-dollar note. 

If you know what you will surely do in an emergency, 
you can calculate on the conduct of the enemy. 

He who graduates from the college of Hard Knocks has a 
diploma that fits him for any practical business. 

Though you may wade knee deep through a river of evil, 
be sure not to remember anything but the good. 

Those who sit and sigh on the banks, for the flooded river 
to run by, never cross to golden opportunities. 

When we have corrected and cured our own faults it will 
be time enough to mention those of our neighbor. 

The double-dealing President who said "Let no guilty 
man escape" pardoned all those who plead guilty. 

There is an eternal spring in the heart of true love that 
has never been frozen in the winter of misfortune. 

Concentration of personal, financial and political power 
is the great highway to the mountain top of fame. 

Proprietors and editors of newspapers color their public 
sentiment in the interest of their private fortune. 

The grain of wheat from an Egyptian tomb will reproduce 
itself after a seeming death of five thousand years. 

Every one can wing away on the gauzy pinions of hope for 
a few moments and defy the cruel fetters of fate. 



TRUTH 217 

The poetic spirit is the brightest angel of the soul, soaring 
unbounded in the limitless realm of intellectuality. 

Those who read and study with their eyes and not their 
minds will gain very little knowledge to remember. 

When subject soldiers cease to fight for tyrant monarchs, 
true liberty will begin to dawn on the human race. 

When the linch-pin of reason drops from the hub of your 
soul, the wheels of your carriage fly to destruction. 

We coldly respond to the crying claims of charity while 
we quickly contribute to anything for selfish glory. 

The poets of the United States, and there are only three 
at the present time, are millionaires in their minds. 

The supreme court of last resort is the battlefield, where 
the plaintiff and defendant get a bloody judgment. 

Lift up your heart, head, soul and eyes to the sun, believing 
in yourself, and victory will perch on your banner. 

The most perfect plans of pelf politicians are punctured 
by the ballot pikes of the people on election day. 

Continuous wealth, passion and power breed corruption 
and tyranny, and ends at last in utter destruction. 

The irrepressible Jew is still doing business at the same 
old stand of the original Solomon, Isaac and Jacob. 

Those who are intensely intoxicated with thought or 
whiskey may end their days in a lunatic asylum. 

Memory of mighty deeds performed for home and country 
thrills the soldiers' soul in the sunset hours of life. 

The poet's fame outlasts the dynasties and monarchs of 
his day and illuminates the records of unborn ages. 



218 TRUTH 

He who will pluck flowers of knowledge from the garden 
of literature can perfume the pathway of daily life. 

The people are constantly fooled by the financial and 
religious sharpers who rule them with tyrant law. 

The sober, industrious man who toils daily for home and 
family is the prop that perpetuates the Republic. 

The strongest man physically and mentally in home, 
church and state will ever dominate in public life. 

The bloated brow of Bacchus has never banished a wrinkle 
from the passionate pulsations of the human heart. 

He who steers the thought of mankind is a greater pilot 
of the ship of state than any mariner on the ocean. 

In the public hall or in the working world the man who 
takes a back seat will not gain the front of success. 

In angling the rushing streams of human life we catch 
more fish with brilliant bait than dull earth worms. 

The mountains of the globe are constantly in motion, 
silently restless as the bottom of the deepest ocean. 

A political guide, like a forest woodsman, must be an 
expert to hold his job, with the wandering citizens. 

Nations, religions, creeds and parties grow old and die 
like individuals, to make room for new institutions. 

Do the small duties that lie close to hand and you will be 
fit to conquer the large ones that remotely beckon. 

The wrestling match of winter and summer weather 
forces human athletes to "grip" for their existence. 

Selling bonds and stocks at par, that are worth only 
thirty cents, is the scheme of political corporations. 



TRUTH 219 

Those who love you for yourself will anticipate your 
desires and wants, and proceed for their realization. 

The Grand-Father's clock of humanity runs down on 
earth to be wound up in the halls of heavenly bliss. 

If there is any justice or future life for men and animals 
the mule should do the riding and lashing hereafter. 

The spirit of wine softens the hardness of hearts and old 
age like the furnace fire melts crude and cold metal. 

Publicity and court prosecution for corporation robbers 
are the best means to destroy their tyrant influence. 

When failure and defeat perch on the banner of your hopes, 
be the last to mention or moan over the misfortune. 

A good fellow is another name for a fool who burns his 
candle at both ends and lights himself to darkness. 

A tyrant is never safe and has no real joy or peace, fearing 
an enemy in every room, hall, park, path or road. 

Yesterday is the grave yard of blasted hopes, today the 
seed time of joy and tomorrow the fruit of work. 

Expose your words and wares in any market for sale and 
they will be pronounced good or bad for the price. 

With a smile and a hand-shake on the surface the jealous 
politician secretly stabs in the cellar of expectation. 

The successful battle crimes of the ages have rewarded 
the victors with laurel and the vanquished with rue. 

The withdrawal of the wise and virtuous from your asso- 
ciation is an evidence that vice is your companion. 

He who consents to be warmed and fed at another man's 
fire and table knows not the glory of independence. 



220 TRUTH 

There can be no real true and lasting friendship without 
the intellectual and moral union of soul sentiments. 

For more than fifty years the world has placed Poe in the 
sky of literature among the stars of first magnitude. 

He is a very wise man who can be brief or diffuse enough 
in conversation to make argument acceptable to all. 

The sorrow, poverty and desolation of the sighing soul 
are pictured in the famished face and battered brow. 

After the terrific mountain storm has passed the bending 
shrub looks at the prostrate oak with exulting pride. 

Heaven, hell and purgatory are only words representing 
good, bad and indiff"erent situations of life and death. 

There are twenty bankers in the Ohio penitentiary, but not 
one printer, a fine tribute to this jolly world worker. 

A thousand censures to the honest man behind his back 
are as powerless as a bag of feathers against a storm. 

When the servant of a free country becomes its tyrant 
he should be immediately transformed into a corpse. 

Tramping around on the volcanic crust of exposure and 
ruin is a constant punishment to the secret robber. 

When sub-marine and alta-marine torpedoes are fired 
against ocean battle ships utter destruction prevails. 

Religious, political and commercial fanaticism have been 
the unconscious pioneers of progress and civilization. 

A million-dollar criminal need not worry about fines or 
imprisonment so long as his money and lawyers last. 

When noble families are out of brains, buUion and business, 
they have only foolish pride and memory for support. 



TRUTH 221 

Those who sit on the smoldering ruins of their fortune take 
pleasure in viewing the sorrowful looks around them. 

Wisdom gives us wealth and power, and wisdom will give 
us fortitude when she takes these worldly gifts away. 

He who labors for another must constantly guard himself 
against wounds and death in dangerous employment. 

A great law-maker is false to his constituents if he sac- 
rifices his wise judgment to their passionate opinions. 

The billions of the past knew as much about the future 
as the future bilhons will now know about the past. 

The duplicity and rapacity of predatory corporations 
keep ahead of any law that congress has yet enacted. 

He who is black-balled by a society club should be thank- 
ful that he escapes association with jealous enemies. 

The love of the practical politician for the "dear people" 
becomes more intense as the election day draws near. 

The great American Republic is rapidly drifting into a 
financial and political ring of administration tyranny. 

Many children are weaned from the home and affection 
of parents like June chickens from the native coop. 

When the qualifications for white and black voters are 
equally executed, white-black birds will be flying! 

A surfeit of hog- wash, wordy platitudes by prowling poli- 
ticians is nauseating to citizens of common sense. 

The pope, prince and president have no real heart and soul- 
lit friends, only acquaintances for financial interest. 

Counting and hatching political candidates is as uncertain 
as hatching healthy chickens out of promiscuous eggs. 



222 TRUTH 

Some ministers preach so long and loud that the con- 
gregation are annoyed between sleeping and waking. 

Canals through a nation are as necessary to the commercial 
health as the veins and arteries to the human system. 

There are guilty men undiscovered who should be in 
prison and innocent men in prison who should be out. 

The greatest care should be taken of brain, eyes, heart and 
stomach, the grand quartette of our fleeting existence. 

The lightning strokes of wisdom flash from the brain of 
the brave philosopher without any policy of direction. 

The love of country is in-bred in the true heart "and 
accentuated by the patriotism of the eloquent tongue. 

The oratorical brilliancy of Bryan, like an evening rain- 
bow, spans the political sky of the American Republic. 

Thirty-three years after the death of a great man is the 
proper time for him to write a truthful autobiography ! 

Advocating the rights of labor publicly and clipping cou- 
pons privately is the ruse of many writers and talkers. 

The habit of having a smile and good word for everybody 
will fill your pathway with the sunshine of sympathy. 

The poisonous cancer of Bureaucracy of government is 
the most fatal in its insidious progress to destruction. 

To vote everything down that is up and everything up 
that's down is the philosophy of the voter of today. 

Beware of the cold-hearted wretch who cannot laugh or 
shed an honest tear at the dark shrine of misfortune. 

The covetous man has a nightmare of expectations for a 
bed-fellow and a morning of misery for a companion. 



TRUTH 223 

Capital without labor is like a man without hands, and 
labor without capital is like a man without victuals. 

The little spites and little jealousies of little people have 
often embroiled the peace of individuals and nations. 

The dog in the manger is never so mean and contemp- 
tible as when barking at the stride of public progress. 

Education, Religion and Civilization continue to manufac- 
ture implements for the future slaughter of mankind. 

Humiliating are the devious means that proud poverty 
employs in securing a few dollars for bare existence. 

The mighty wrong may often overpower the majestic 
right, but wrong finally dies by its internal rottenness. 

How quickly the loyal followers of a king or general leave 
his cause after defeat and serve the master they hated ! 

The hcense of a poet and a saloon keeper permit them to 
intoxicate the world with their passionate productions. 

If we were absolutely deprived of the faculty of admiration 
there would be no society or theatrical entertainments. 

The industry and patience of the coral insect and ant 
might be studied and imitated by so-called lordly men. 

Nations are but glittering pebbles on the fly wheel of 
time whirled into obHvion by the cyclones of centuries. 

The national political demagogue and tyrant is as rampant 
today as in the olden time of Pericles and Pisistratus. 

Prosperous and happy environment to the child is like 
good soil, refreshing rains and sunshine to tender plants. 

The absolute honesty of mankind would starve Detectives, 
Policemen, Lawyers, Judges, Jailers and Executioners. 



224 TRUTH 

If we never know what people do against us it is not done 
at all, and they have their spleen without consolation. 

Nations are hourly preparing implements and munitions 
of war to wound and kill each other for gold and power. 

The glories of yesterday are no more and the triumphs of 
tomorrow will rest side by side with vanished splendor. 

The executive tyrant who is continually knocking the 
people will be surely knocked in turn out of existence. 

When God gives an individual a crooked eye, nose, hand 
or foot the surgeon can straighten the freaks of nature. 

Woman is a matchless mess of microbes meandering over 
the earth for the benefit of garment and jewel factories. 

Blowing your own horn is the proper thing if it contains 
the golden thought and golden grain of practical virtue. 

Those who consent to all opinions in social conversation 
are parasites, while those who contest are cross-grained. 

Many of the ancestors of the ruling monarchs of today 
were war robbers and murderers of matchless iniquity. 

Convince a man of wealth and power that your work is 
for his financial interest and your employment is secure. 

The brilliant, egotistical man will win his way through a 
thousand difficulties where modest ability abjectly fails. 

Those who are depressed by poverty are filled with sus- 
picion, disputes, jealousy and heart-burning trepidation. 

The soul does not sleep in the windowless chamber of the 
grave, but reigns in the spiritual regions of immortality. 

Storms and earthquakes tear down the loftiest palaces of 
princes, leaving the lowly hut of the peasant unharmed. 



TRUTH 225 

Industry, economy, sobriety, honor and morality are 
promulgated by the Young Men's Christian Association. 

He who innocently suffers for the crime of another should 
sit at the right hand of Justice and pleasure in paradise. 

The sonnet form of poetry is cold, jerky and inharmonious, 
touched with technicality and without heart or lucidity. 

Your neighbor who receives dividend-checks and clips 
cash-coupons does not object to trusts and corporations. 

When the decisions of the courts collaborate with criminal 
capital, the rights of the common people will be crushed. 

Few politicians are patterns of virtue for people to imitate, 
but often examples of duplicity and peculation to avoid. 

People should be more particular in hiding and patching 
the cracks in their conscience than those in their clothes. 

The best medicine for the New Year is forgetting and 
forgiving the strokes and scars of envy, malice and hate. 

Politics and rehgion may travel on the peaceful highway 
of a repubhc without ever coming to contention or clash. 

By licking the boots and kissing the hands of power, 
official sneaks retain their humiliated bread and butter. 

The end-seat street-car passengers take the toe-crushing, 
rain showers and hot sun with philosophic equanimity. 

The furnace fire of friendship will soon grow cold unless 
the coal of interest is heaped on its smouldering embers. 

Your immediate dining and drinking friends will not 
secretly love you too much if you are witty and brilliant. 

An individual and nation thoroughly armed with virtue, 
bravery and ammunition will not be suddenly assaulted. 



226 TRUTH 

When tyrannical local laws usurp individual rights, the 
law is secretly evaded and police regulation justly defied. 

When a prominent citizen commits a prominent crime he 
should receive a prominent punishment, but he doesn't. 

In the midnight of earthly sorrow there is an angel of 
hope and mercy that reconciles us to the worst situation. 

To cherish and preserve the memory of patriotic, battle- 
field ancestors, is the best guarantee of national existence. 

Race, language and religion are insurmountable barriers 
to the national friendship of the Japanese and Americans. 

Politicians are constantly putting forth patent pills of 
thought to purge the people with bamboozle philosophy. 

Jealous generals and envious admirals have often lost 
their own glory and destroyed the hopes of their country. 

The glory of a man, city or country is found in celebrating 
the patriotic deeds of great warriors, statesmen and poets. 

An individual and nation will move forward to fight for 
gold, land and power when they believe they can conquer. 

The President who can make himself as common as sun- 
shine, water and grass will be ever relished by the people. 

Many people fear and hate those whom they secretly 
injure and are too cowardly to confi^ont them face to face. 

The taste and tension of youth tremble under teeth of 
old age, destroying even the aroma of vanished pleasure. 

Critics are more apt to point out your mistakes than your 
triumphs, as they seldom create anything but displeasure. 

You must trust yourself in the gloom of adversity before 
you can fully appreciate life on the pinnacle of prosperity. 



TRUTH 227 

Fame is but the shadow of a dream, an echo of vanished 
hopes, borne away on the tireless wings of torturing time. 

An official fraud and legislative robber steers clear of a 
shrewd, honest man, fearing the detection of his schemes. 

The air, the sun and the rain are the grandest gardeners in 
the universe, chemical farmers of mysterious abundance. 

Blessed is the individual whose morning, noon and night 
of life are filled with intelligent conscience and competence. 

The constant departure of mortals is as natural and un- 
noticed as the falling of autumnal leaves from forest ranges. 

Many vacant churches and cathedrals might be turned 
with profit into bread, clothes, furniture and shoe factories. 

The officer who profits by political contributions cannot 
be perfectly free in the selection of his executive assistants. 

The politician who is openly refusing a position that is 
not officially offered is secretly accepting what he cannot get. 

Poets and orators through all ages have been the videttes 
of liberty, and tyrants tremble at their songs and eloquence. 

Great corporations and trusts move their fraud cases 
from state to sympathizing judges of United States courts. 

If mankind was absolutely honest for one year, detectives, 
policemen, jailers, lawyers and judges would starve to death. 

Verses are as common as the leaves of the forest, but 
genuine poetry is the orchard in the wilderness of literature. 

Lobby attorneys move around State legislatures and the 
Congress of the United States as snake bribers of criminality. 

When labor receives a share in the large profits of capital, 
strikes, lockouts and riots will be extirpated from business. 



228 TRUTH 

The news of human accidents and death are but daily and 
yearly repetitions of the same old catalogue of destruction. 

Philosophers alone decline the social and political honors 
of royalty in order to preserve their personal independence. 

The cowardly and brave of animated nature are created 
so by Jehovah, who is absolutely responsible for all things. 

On Thanksgiving Day the successful candidate dines on 
turkey and the defeated man may feast on garnished crow. 

When the business man begins to eat up his principal 
instead of his profits, bankruptcy is his next door neighbor. 

The secret opinions of the cowardly and thieving part of 
mankind are imitations of rats, foxes, wolves and jackals. 

The objective force of nature acting on the subjective 
soul of the poet produces the loftiest rhymes and philosophy. 

Luxury and licentiousness in high places is a vicious 
example to set the starving hordes of ignorance and poverty. 

The earthquake, tidal wave, volcano, cyclone and light- 
ning stroke are the Divine messengers for human destruction. 

Those who lie through the force of imagination are 
harmless in comparison with those who lie by dastard design. 

If any man attempts to change the original words or 
tune of "The Star Spangled Banner," shoot him on the spot! 

Natural and literary philosophers are the true pioneers 
of progress, having no policy in the principle they announce. 

Act honestly and nobly today and the criminal ghost of 
tomorrow will not whisper and grin at your midnight pillow. 

The chilling winter countenance of unfortunate people 
is a glaring contrast to the summer smiles of pleasing mortals. 



TRUTH 229 

The tyrant American millionaire who imports cheap and 
ignorant Asiatic labor is the worst enemy of the Republic. 

Pity the rich rooter whose sordid soul is soured and 
shriveled by his daily greed and devotion for dusty dollars. 

Bad blood among the inmates of the Republican household 
is a cheering sight to those who would "divide and conquer" ! 

A President out of power has not as much influence as 
the policeman that guards the portals of his former mansion. 

Do not flatter a person with your friendship when you do 
not mean it and become a hypocrite in your own estimation. 

Gay old men flirting with fresh young ladies in street cars 
have no idea how jealous they make the natty conductors. 

Any man with political ambition, brains and bullion can 
buy a seat in any legislature, Senate, Congress or parliament. 

Scholars who burn their golden lines of truth into the 
altars of human hearts are the real preachers of perfection. 

A rapid change in the dirt and rock of the Panama Canal 
is needed more than the constant changes in the Commission. 

When positive and negative opinion try to reign in the 
same brain the positive quickly evicts its vacillating brother. 

The God-given glory of giving is far more pleasant than 
receiving, as spontaneous generosity engenders no obligation. 

When you discover that an old friend is a fraud say 
nothing, but quit his personal conjunction and communion. 

A rich thief is no happier than a poor one, although his 
gold may purchase exemption from personal imprisonment. 



SECTION THREE 

Matter and force in nature always existed and cannot be 
increased or diminished by any religious opinion of midget 
man. 

We can do everything and anything in reason if we work 
strong enough and long enough with persistent body and 
mind. 

Policy quickly changes for pounds and dollars, while 
principle stands firm and unpurchased on the ramparts of 
truth. 

Devils and angels of thought are constantly visiting the 
palace of our soul, each courting recognition and entertain- 
ment. 

The priest, monk and nun, n on -producers, violate the 
command of God to multiply, be fruitful and replenish the 
earth ! ' 

Continual hammering will crack the hardest stone, as 
incessant political agitation will overthrow any corrupt 
party. 

How easily we favor any side of any private or public 
question where our sentimental or financial interest is at 
stake ! 

A brave, independent philosopher in rags leaves behind 
him silken thoughts to clothe the world in virtuous habili- 
ments. 

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TRUTH 231 

False weight, false measure bottled and canned lies 
are the elements of the manufacturer and commercial seller 
today. 

The railroad presidents seem to be stronger than the 
legislative, executive and judicial departments of the United 
States. 

Nothing but a bloody revolution will smash and destroy 
tyrant corporations and trusts that secretly command the 
courts. 

God creates good and evil things in all the domain of 
nature and what man pronounces poison, God may pronounce 
purity. 

If secret sins and crimes are cremated with the body 
there is nothing left but the cold ashes of fading remem- 
brance. 

Pessimistic and envious people block the wheels of progress 
and are extremely jealous of anything they cannot financially 
control. 

The tunes of love touched from the chords of memory 
will often unite estranged hearts in private and public 
station. 

Those who graduate in the modern garden of common 
sense are stronger than those who compound with the ancient 
classics. 

Peace maintained by the loss of honor, bravery and legal 
rights is the most pernicious situation of individuals and 
nations. 

Cruelty to dumb animals, poor orphan children and pris- 
oners continues every day by secret tyrannical and cowardly 
keepers. 



232 TRUTH 

Innocent members of state legislatures have a peculiar 
habit of electing millionaire candidates to the United States 
Senate ! 

Capital can rest contented when the supreme court of the 
United States is composed of former corporation and trust 
lawyers. 

Very few politicians have finally succeeded in adopting 
and abandoning successively public measures for personal 
interest. 

Primary truth, like a pure -white triple-cut diamond, 
reflects its sparkling rays and brightens everything in its 
vicinity. 

Many magazines and newspapers are subsidized or owned 
by criminal millionaires to color editorials for their robbing 
schemes. 

The working men of any business establishment will 
quickly take color and force from the superintendent or 
manager. 

The Japs may find out some day that the American 
soldiers and sailors are not Russian serfs and conscripted 
peasants. 

When one class of railroad travelers are exempt from 
paying fare the other travelers have to support presump- 
tive pets. 

Prudence and supervision of individual and official respon- 
sibility will eventually defeat the best hatched scheme of 
duplicity. 

The editor who can compose practical literary philosophy 
for his readers is the household and office preacher of 
mankind. 



TRUTH 233 

Self-love is imperious, obedient, sincere, false, pious, timid, 
bold and cruel, a constant conglomeration of cunning con- 
trarieties. 

The true, moral sentiment of the world in the long run 
controls the nations, stronger than marching armies or royal 
dynasties. 

The corruptions of the mind and body should be purged 
every morning, that truth and health may be cleanly 
preserved. 

We do not understand why the Creator does not make 
intelligence, prosperity and good health contagious instead 
of disease. 

The pompous selfishness and boasting of some married 
people over the bachelor crew does not generate benevolence 
of temper. 

The liberty-loving intelligence of this grand electric age 
is surely shattering the foundation stones of malicious 
monarchy. 

Go to the monuments, temples and tombs of vanished 
ages and behold the vanity and evanescent glory of presump- 
tive man! 

After a noted man departs from frantic life, the people 
and press never forget to mention his most prominent 
escapades. 

The national Executive can nullify any order or decision 
of the United States courts by administrative intensity or 
negligence. 

The creditor is ever happier than the debtor, as the one 
has only anxiety, while the other has humiliation, penury 
and remorse. 



234 TRUTH 

The perpetual political scold who preaches moral plati- 
tudes is a nuisance and ignorant of his impudence and 
presumption. 

When a man is endowed by nature with a greater heart 
and soul than his neighbors, he is quickly acknowledged 
their commander. 

When the executive department of government conceals 
facts demanded by the legislative department, there is 
something rotten in the case. 



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